Re: partitions and filesystems

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:22:32 +0000

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.

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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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