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Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:56:46 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i |
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:39:27AM -0500, Woody Suwalski wrote:
> Still there is no point in including in the parted's disk list CDROMs or
> devices with no geometry... None of these will ever be used as a
> repartitioning target...
Firstly, Linux will probably drop all support for "geometry" soon.
Secondly, geometry is a legacy thing that is irrelevant on many
architectures that Parted supports. Finally, Parted is useful on
read-only media for copying partitions, and verifying partition tables.
(You can put a partition table on a CD, although Linux will ignore
it...) You can even use Parted to tell Linux what the partition table
is.
Cheers,
Andrew
- Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Colin Watson, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Andrew Clausen, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Colin Watson, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Andrew Clausen, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Colin Watson, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, B.Hakvoort, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Woody Suwalski, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Andrew Clausen, 2004/12/04
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Woody Suwalski, 2004/12/05
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs,
Andrew Clausen <=
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Woody Suwalski, 2004/12/06
- Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs, Andrew Clausen, 2004/12/04