04-06-2011
two three four reasons.
1) History. FAT is capable of doing this because this is how floppy disks were formatted.
2) Windows tolerates it for reason #1.
3) It may be simpler for standalone things to understand. (I have a flash drive with references to "Flash Disk Tester 2.0" still left in it somewhere from the factory.) Perhaps also easier for a BIOS to boot from. (There are LOTS of very broken USB boot BIOSes out there.)
4) Windows is, or was, terrible at handling partitions on removable drives. I haven't checked lately but it used to be that any partitions beyond the first were ignored. When it does that why bother having a partition table at all?
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repartit
REPARTITION(8) System Manager's Manual REPARTITION(8)
NAME
repartition - load a partition table
SYNOPSIS
repartition device [partition-file]
DESCRIPTION
Repartition uploads a new partition table for the partitions of device. The table is obtained from the first sector of partition-file if
given, device otherwise. Device may refer to the whole drive or a primary partition, depending on whether you want to upload a partition
or a subpartition table. The partitions will be truncated to fit within the enclosing device like the disk driver does, unless the numbers
are coming from partition-file.
EXAMPLES
repartition /dev/hd0
repartition /dev/hd4 /etc/hd4.table
Reload the partition table of drive 0 setting /dev/hd[1-4], and the subpartition table of /dev/hd4 setting /dev/hd4[a-d] using a file. The
latter may be useful if you need more than the 4 subpartitions a single Minix partition gives you.
DIAGNOSTICS
The new table is printed on standard output.
FILES
/dev/hd[0-9]
SEE ALSO
hd(4), part(8).
BUGS
The disk must be in use for the changes to stick. The partition table of an idle disk will be reloaded on the first open.
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
REPARTITION(8)