disable partitioning!

From: Jinu M. (jinum_at_esntechnologies.co.in)
Date: 03/09/04

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    Hi All,

    We are writing a block device driver for 2.4.x kernel.
    I want to know how to indicate to the filesystem that our block driver does not support partitions.
    I mean fdisk should not be allowed on disks supported by our block driver.

    Regards,
    -Jinu
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