On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > See subject. mke2fs and mkreiserfs do not touch the first 100 bytes of > the partition, but exactly this area (first 4 chars) is used to detect > the XFS filesystem.
Yes. Unfortunately XFS is the only (AFAIK) linux filesystem that doesn't support a boot sector at the front of the partition. (For compatability with IRIX, which has a sensible boot loader.) -- Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

