Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 05:40:14 +0100 | From | Roger Espel Llima <> | Subject | Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken? |
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> 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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