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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:42:48 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

> OK, call me dense, but what things are associated with partition aside of the
> fact that it exists?

A partition has an underlying device, a start and a length.
It may have a label or volume id.
It has a partition number (the 7 of hda7) that can be assigned.
It may have substructure on the partition level, like a
DOS-type partition (BSD slice) with BSD subpartitions.

Andries
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