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From: martin@euterpe.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0: someone please fix mount_pcfs
Date: 20 Aug 1994 12:40:47 +0200
Organization: The Other Site - Martin's Museum of Muses
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In <331b5v$q00@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
>I suspect Linux and others also have this limiation, it's just that I
>haven't checked them out for it one way or another to be able to say.
Linux uses the MSDOS fdisk partition table, it doesn't have a disklabel
or VTOC of its own. So there never could be a DOS disk without a Linux
useable partition.
Martin
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