Re: Empty partition nodes not created (was device node issues with recent mm's and udev)

>There is a misunderstanding in terminology here.
>"DOS-type partition table" is for most Linux users the only type
>they have ever seen. The msdos in this context does not refer
>to a particular filesystem, like the fat or msdos filesystem.

As long as we're talking terminology: fat and msdos aren't particular 
filesystems.  They're particular filesystem types.  The contents of a 
particular DOS-fomatted floppy disk would be an example of a particular 
filesystem.

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Bryan Henderson                          IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose CA                              Filesystems
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