On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Mason wrote: > Sorry, my brain glitched for a moment, looking at the device nodes, > instead of the appropriate mount point. > > # ls -l /mnt/sda/ > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 572928 Mar 27 2012 hfs.exe > > sda instead of sda1 means there is no MBR, thus no partition table, > right? AFAIU, the whole drive is being used for a single partition. Right. > How does the kernel know the partition type then? Is it just guessing? Yes, the mount code guesses at the filesystem type. Alan Stern -- 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