Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> A funny effect might be that hda5 exists, hda6 does not, and hda7 exists again.
> Maybe unexpected for some software.

why would that be unexpected?  that seems entirely normal these days with 
udev...

# ls /dev/hda?
/dev/hda1  /dev/hda2  /dev/hda5

-dean
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