On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:40 AM, David Boyes wrote:
Why? That's a harder question. The legitimate case I've encountered is with a partially written device driver that doesn't yet fill in all the device characteristics table info, but you still want to try it out.
Also, if you want to create an empty filesystem on a file that you plan to mount as a loopback device. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
