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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: partitions and filesystems
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:22:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030112092232.A29665@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301112323280.21000-100000@dell>; from rpjday@mindspring.com on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:24:56PM -0500

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


      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-12  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-12  4:24 partitions and filesystems Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-12  4:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-12  9:22 ` Russell King [this message]

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