Re: [ILUG] [ot] help desperatly. needed with disk rescue

From: John P. Looney (Kate) (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 16:05:10 IST


On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:01:31PM +0200, McDaid, Aaron mentioned:
> That reminds me, is it possible to just use /dev/hda as
> a filesystem (no partition table!)?. The booting would be
> wierd (but I assume LILO could handle it or maybe use a boot
> floppy)
>
> I mean
> mke2fs /dev/hda
> mount /dev/hda /whatever

 Yup, should be fine. The whole partitioning thing is all just legacy
MSDOS 3.0 stuff...

Kate

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