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* partitions and filesystems
@ 2003-01-12  4:24 Robert P. J. Day
  2003-01-12  4:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
  2003-01-12  9:22 ` Russell King
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2003-01-12  4:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux kernel mailing list


  is it reasonable to be able to select that you want to support
Acorn filesystems while not selecting Acorn partition support?
same with Amiga filesystems and partitions, and possibly others,
i wasn't trying to be exhaustive.  just curious.

rday


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* Re: partitions and filesystems
  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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Valdis.Kletnieks @ 2003-01-12  4:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: Linux kernel mailing list

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:24:56 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>  said:
>   is it reasonable to be able to select that you want to support
> Acorn filesystems while not selecting Acorn partition support?

Yes.  Consider a loopback mount of a dd'ed image of a partition....
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech


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* Re: partitions and filesystems
  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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2003-01-12  9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: Linux kernel mailing list

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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