[wellylug] DD no go

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 16:00 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> It's very unusual to create a filesystem on a disk device. It's far
> more common to partition the disk device into multiple partitions and
> then create a filesystem on one of those. I'm not even sure what
> happens if you try and create a filesystem on a disk device and mount
> it. Should work I suppose? Unusual though.

Yes, it's perfectly possible to put a filesystem directly onto a disk
device. Not something you normally want to do with a HDD, but floppies
and CDs have the filesystem directly on the device.

USB drives usually have a partition structure on them, although they
typically have just the 1 partition. Possibly they can't be read by
windows without a partition table...

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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