Re: partitions and filesystems

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 04:22:32 EST

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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:24:56PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> is it reasonable to be able to select that you want to support
> Acorn filesystems while not selecting Acorn partition support?

Yes. A natively formatted Acorn drive will only have one filesystem on
it without any form of partition table. Even with a partition table,
/dev/hda or /dev/hda1 will be the same filesystem.

Obviously mounting both is not recommended.

-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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