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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:46:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?: > > But what if you just replace the "unknown partition table" > > by "no recognized partition table" > > What about the more correct. > hdd: no partition table > > There is no presumed "unknown" partition table at all > when we can't recognize it. That is more confusing. The user tends to believe such messages and will start reformatting / fdisking etc, while in reality the problem may be that she forgot to enable CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION or so. (And there are also partition types, like AIX partition, that the kernel currently has no support for.) Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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