Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:39:27AM -0500, Woody Suwalski wrote:
> Still there is no point in including in the parted's disk list CDROMs or 
> devices with no geometry... None of these will ever be used as a 
> repartitioning target...

Firstly, Linux will probably drop all support for "geometry" soon.
Secondly, geometry is a legacy thing that is irrelevant on many
architectures that Parted supports.  Finally, Parted is useful on
read-only media for copying partitions, and verifying partition tables.
(You can put a partition table on a CD, although Linux will ignore
it...)  You can even use Parted to tell Linux what the partition table
is.

Cheers,
Andrew