What's meaning of extra partitions on partion table?

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> From: Abdullah Teke <ateke.groups at gmail.com>

>To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:32 AM
>Subject: What's meaning of extra partitions on partion table?
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>Hi;
>I have kubuntu 12.10 installed on disk had three partition as you see below. Nowadays  i realized that there are two extra partitions on table. Is there anybody who have opinions for reason of this? Thank you.
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>       Name                      Flags                    Part Type             FS Type                             [Label]                        Size (MB)
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>                                                            Pri/Log              Free Space                                                              1.05              *
>        sda1                      Boot                      Primary              ext4                                                                20971.52              *
>        sda2                                                Primary              swap                                                                 4294.97              *
>        sda3                                                Primary              ext4                                                               474840.31              *
>                                                            Pri/Log              Free Space                                                              0.03              *
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They're not really extra partitions. It's free space left behind by aligning the partitions to certain boundaries - space you can't use.
It seems your first partition had to be offset by 1.05 MB from the beginning of the disk, and the last partition ends 0.03 MB before the end of the disk.

Ben