On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
> fact that it exists?
A partition has an underlying device, a start and a length.
It may have a label or volume id.
It has a partition number (the 7 of hda7) that can be assigned.
It may have substructure on the partition level, like a
DOS-type partition (BSD slice) with BSD subpartitions.
Andries
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