From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:13:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:13:49 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:49924 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:13:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:22:32 +0000 From: Russell King To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: partitions and filesystems Message-ID: <20030112092232.A29665@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux kernel mailing list References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rpjday@mindspring.com on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:24:56PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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