[wellylug] DD no go

[David Antliff]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:26 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
>  > Um... Question... as I understood this stuff (which is not very well) the
>  > reference below to sdb & sdb1 as disk devices seems strange. I thought sdb was
>  > a the instantiation of the physical device on the filesystem & sdb1,2,3 etc are
>  > partitions on this?
>  >
>  > So is this a typo or am I more ignorant than thought about this?
>
>  You are correct Brent. It's a typo. :-)

Oversimplication. Sorry for confusing you.

I didn't consider floppy drives (surely I can be forgiven for that) or
CD/DVDs. In fact any block device can harbour a file system, it's just
unusual to put one directly on a hard disk device.

Of course none of this helps Mr Chord.

-- 
David.