>There is a misunderstanding in terminology here. >"DOS-type partition table" is for most Linux users the only type >they have ever seen. The msdos in this context does not refer >to a particular filesystem, like the fat or msdos filesystem. As long as we're talking terminology: fat and msdos aren't particular filesystems. They're particular filesystem types. The contents of a particular DOS-fomatted floppy disk would be an example of a particular filesystem. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html