Accessing partitions in drive images

[Jeffry Smith]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are at least four different meanings of "floppy" in use here
>
>  I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
> much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.  I'm now far more
> confused than I was when I started.  So, to go back to the original
> question -- "Why are USB flash drives partitioned?" -- I now think
> it's because the Illuminati like OS/2.
>

My suspicion is a lot if it is because "we've always done it that
way."  Once started, it continued.

I haven't used WIndows in years, but my Linux box gladly takes USB
flash drives partioned or not, in a variety of filesystems (I've used
FAT, VFAT, ext2, ext3, xfs, haven't tried BTRFS yet).  However, all
the USB flash drives I've purchased have been partitioned with one
partion, formated with some FAT variety.