Re: kern/40360: fictitious disklabels do not handle devices without an MBR

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:25:01PM +0000, jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost wrote:
> >Synopsis:       fictitious disklabels do not handle devices without an MBR
...
> >Description:
>       When inserting a USB device that only contains a FAT filesystems,
>       the auto-generated disklabel incorrectly reports a 4.2BSD filesystem
>       at the beginning of the device.

The filesystem type in the disklabel is fairly irrelevant.
Nothing during mount looks at it - so it is really just a comment.
(except maybe for swap).

It is more important that the fictitious label contain a partition
that covers the entire disk.

        David

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