On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:07:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > OK, but I still don't understand how windows gets the partition table on > there in the first place ... that must surely be some sort of guess the > disk size hack. 99% of the time the partition table was provided by the drive manufacturer; I would assume they have a way of doing that as a part of their manufacturing processes that don't require an OS individually running the equivalent of fdisk or gdisk on said drive. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html