Re: unneeded SubClass and Protocol entries in unusual_devs.h

[Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Mason wrote:

> Sorry, my brain glitched for a moment, looking at the device nodes,
> instead of the appropriate mount point.
> 
> # ls -l /mnt/sda/
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 root     0          572928 Mar 27  2012 hfs.exe
> 
> sda instead of sda1 means there is no MBR, thus no partition table,
> right? AFAIU, the whole drive is being used for a single partition.

Right.

> How does the kernel know the partition type then? Is it just guessing?

Yes, the mount code guesses at the filesystem type.

Alan Stern

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