On 05/14/2015 10:16 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
The concept of fixed provisioning with fdisk or similar at system initialization (aka install) time dates from the first half of the last century
Actually, there wasn't any disks back then. The disk drive was invented by IBM in the 50s, which is in the 2nd half of the last century. Also, early drives didn't have a file system as such, just sectors on the disk or drum, which could be directly accessed by the software. BTW, many years ago, I used to work on a system, in the old Toronto Stock Exchange, that used a drum. It was installed in 1952! It was built with Vacuum tubes and relays and was used to transmit stock prices to brokers offices. Scroll down to "TELEREGISTER MAGNETRONIC BID ASK" for a description of the equipment I used to work on: http://www.torontoghosts.org/index.php?/20080815122/The-Former-City-Of-Toron... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org