Heya, Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> But this "partition?" thing would mean that having a partition table is now > mandatory, right? Is that really supposed to be the case? The partition > table has a magic mark (0x55 0xAA) in order for it *not* to be mandatory > (i.e. if you want to use the whole disk without partitioning anything, go > right ahead) and I can still remember using (floppy) disks which had no > partition table. ‘partition?’ is meant to return true when given a partition, so yes, it assumes there’s a partition table somewhere. :-) In general, I think that’s a reasonable assumption. Is it really a problem to always have a partition table? Ludo’.
