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Fri Sep 8 06:45:32 1995
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 15:27:35 +0200
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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: 9GB drives
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 13:23:26 GMT
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:: If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
:: can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
:: table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
:: reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
A bad idea.
Just to mention one detail: at boot time the kernel will read
the partition table of /dev/sdb. Instead it will find block 0
of an ext2 file system. What partitions will it recognize?
If you have 9GB, there is no reason to risk problems
just in order to save 1 sector.
