Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken?

Roger Espel Llima (espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 05:40:14 +0100

> Are you saying that you don't have to partition single volume drives? You
> can just run mke2fs on the raw device? Like this.
> mke2fs /dev/sdb
> mount /dev/sdb /mnt/morespace

I do this all the time with my IDE zipdisk; mount (or was it mke2fs)
prints a warning about using the whole device instead of a partition,
but it does it anyway, and it works just as well.

-- 
Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html


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