> Probably I am missing some context, but the above seems to be > a false statement. The PC partition format does give you > start and size, and no filesystem knowledge is needed to > find out where a partition ends. I am indeed in error. The PC DOS format is indeed fine. I was remembering from the magneto-opticals and the problem there was you couldn't tell the size because there were two conflicting standards for partition encoding. So that means a distro can detect some of the cases which is even better and makes a sysfs interface even more useful. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
