Thomas Bächler wrote: > waldek wrote: >> I'm quite surprised Jerry was able to _mount_ /dev/sdb at all, as I >> understand it, the /dev/sd? entries refer to whole devices while >> /dev/sdb? to partitions on the device. So one should mount /dev/sdb1 >> instead of /dev/sdb. Or I'm missing something? > > That depends on what you do. You don't necessarily have to create a > partition table on a usb stick/flash drive/whatever. Linux has few > restrictions in that area, so you can create a filesystem on sdb instead > of creating a partition in sdb and a filesystem in sdb1. For some devices, > this behaviour (sometimes referred to as "superfloppy") is the default. On > other operating systems(tm), there could be more restrictions, but afaik > even Windows supports both the hard disk and the superfloppy way (at least > for usb sticks).
I did not know that - thanks! I'm either using partition table (at home) or volume managers (at work). Is there any benefit of doing it like this - I mean 'superfloppy' way? cheers waldek _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
