Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recentmm's and udev)

From: Bryan Henderson
Date: Fri May 06 2005 - 11:45:24 EST


>There is a misunderstanding in terminology here.
>"DOS-type partition table" is for most Linux users the only type
>they have ever seen. The msdos in this context does not refer
>to a particular filesystem, like the fat or msdos filesystem.

As long as we're talking terminology: fat and msdos aren't particular
filesystems. They're particular filesystem types. The contents of a
particular DOS-fomatted floppy disk would be an example of a particular
filesystem.

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Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA Filesystems
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