An exception to the single partition "rule" is with UDF. In order to get a fully cross platform supported UDF volume, it needs to own the entire physical block device. It's quite a bit more sane to use as a cross platform volume format than FAT32 or exFAT, for sticks or drives. Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html