[wplug] unable to mount disk

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Lance Tost assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Mon, 26 May 2003, John Harrold wrote:
| > purposes. believe it or not, i formatted the raw device, and there isnt a
| > partition on it. so i was really mounting the device 'hdf' and not 'hdf1'.
| > thanks for the comments though.
| 
| So what would be the advantage of not using a partition?

too lazy to run fdisk :). really though, i just needed one big drive so i
formatted the raw disk. i didn't think anything of it.  billings pointed
out that linux could handle it while other os'es might have trouble. since
i formatted it ext3, i wasn't too concerned about weather windows could
read the data. i didn't think there would be any problem with doing this,
but evidentally there are benefits to having partitions in this case.

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