[Courses] [FS] Lesson 1

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:40:07PM -0400 or thereabouts, Katie Bechtold wrote:
> What kinds of media can be partitioned?  Only hard disks?  Only
> non-removable media?  Any media?

Pretty much any writeable media (with the exception of CDR(W) and floppy
disk).  You can partition hard, zip disks, some flash roms[0] (eg.  USB
memory stick).  There are caveats though:  If you partition the flash card
for your camera differently, the camera may not be able to use it.

CDR(W) uses "pre-mastering" software to make a filesystem so partitions in
the traditional sense are not possible.  A multisession CD could be thought
of as having "partitions" (ie. each session) but they are internally
"mounted" under the "root" of the CD so you cannot see (or manipulate) them
individually.

Floppy disks don't appear to support partitions.  Instead, the floppy disk
is itself the "partition".  

Conor

[0] I'm not sure that this is the case though it seems to be supported by:
http://www.ssv-embedded.de/trm/trm-cf.pdf
and
http://midori.transmeta.com/manual/build.html
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Conor Daly 
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