On 19 Sep 2002 at 20:41, Philip S Tellis wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > > How does a partition spans multiple disk? I don't know how RAID works > > but in my guess that would be a single device /dev/hdr rather than > > a partition is just a virtual demarkation of file system boundaries.
Not true. A file system is made on a partition unless it's a RAID, In case of RAID disks are physically mirrored so are partitions. Partition comes first then file system. Not otherwise.. > there is nothing that says > > 1. a partition must be contiguous. ie, a single partition can be made > up of small parts scattered all over the disk > 2. on a single disk Partition can also be recognised by BIOS and thus independent of OS. I think it's a part of IBM PC clone definition. I can't think of a way to create a partition that spans multiple disk without RAID. Could you illustrate? Bye Shridhar -- If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. -- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
