> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > 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. I would expect it as part of the manufacturer's testing process. After all, the disks are going to be plugged into a machine whose whole purpose is to run the disk through its paces, and the machine knows in advance exactly how big the disk is. Dale -- 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
