Flash : Partition Boundaries

Hi,

Does the flash fs have partition table marks on each boundry?

For eg. take the command : dd if = /dev/zero of = somefile.

Will this stop at the partition boundary or will it keep going until
end of disk is encountered?

Thanks and Regards,
Karthik

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