external USB hard drive?mounting, messing up boot

[Dave Smith]

Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I'm as anal as the next guy, and I find your usage impeccable.  To the
> kernel, a partition of a device is another device, with a brand new
> minor device number.  It's probably most correct to say that, "Mount
> wants a block device with a filesystem on it."
>
> Additionally, it's actually pretty common to have a filesystem on an
> unpartitioned device.  For example, floppy disks (remember those?!) were
> never partitioned.  USB drives are often unpartitioned.  CDs, in my
> experience, are rarely partitioned.
>   

I find your correction of my verbiage most accurate and enjoyable. Thank 
*you* sir.

--Dave