I did indeed
assume a filesystem; under what circumstances would a
Unix hard disk not have a file system?
One example is the use of a raw partition for, say, a database.
This is not uncommon in Oracle installations, for example.
Informix does this also. It has a whole management subsystem for its
"raw" dataspaces.
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