Accessing partitions in drive images (was: drive recovery of dual-boot system)

[Ben Scott]

  As long as we're picking nits...

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Michael ODonnell
<michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> most filesystems do normally reside on partitions
> but that's not actually inherent in the design of the system ...

  Not inherent in the design of *nix systems, certainly.  Or computers
in general.  But in the original IBM pee sea fixed disks specs, fixed
disks have a partition table.  A disk which lacks such is something of
an anomaly.  This doesn't matter if you're only playing in the *nix
playground, but if you start mixing in other OSes, or even stand-alone
diagnostics, things can get ugly.  Something to keep in mind.

-- Ben