-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-02-14 at 10:41 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Yes...you don't have a partition table. While Linux can use that...you're really violating all kinds of standards. All that for the purpose of saving 1 block or 2 blocks (512 - 1024 bytes) is normally not a good tradeoff.
I would consider this sort of thing appropriate for a deep-space probe which will never return to Earth MUCH more than any disk drive which is going to stay here, and has a real chance (say for data recovery or whatever) get thrown into another system.
X'-) I have seen partitionless usb memory sticks somewhere. As for the clueless technician overwriting the non existing partition table... shame and wrath unto him/her! :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHtGjmtTMYHG2NR9URAtQgAJ45jlJrhSLl9ZuKVq8hVTSlzdOv1gCfbhkW JfTCjprjZl+gVc53+P6bc5g= =Us7+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org