Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:42:48 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [bk/patch] driver model update: device_unregister() |
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the > fact that it exists?
A partition has an underlying device, a start and a length. It may have a label or volume id. It has a partition number (the 7 of hda7) that can be assigned. It may have substructure on the partition level, like a DOS-type partition (BSD slice) with BSD subpartitions.
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