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Mounting an unpartitioned disk: wording/explaining the situation #1945

Closed crackwitz closed 2 months ago

crackwitz commented 2 months ago

Type of issue

Other (describe below)

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It took me writing this issue to figure out what you're trying to show. The "unpartitioned" confused me.

The disk is "unpartitioned" in the sense that the file system spans the entire disk, without any partitioning to frame the file system. The example does not show a disk that is empty ("unpartitioned").

I'd appreciate pointing out that this example is supposed to show a disk without partitioning, but with a file system. I think the typical example of that is USB drives and memory cards.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/main/WSL/wsl2-mount-disk.md

Author

@craigloewen-msft

Document Id

a9d73ca3-7026-5b5a-f3fe-3511e976cde4

craigloewen-msft commented 2 months ago

For disks, the concept of partitioning versus 'empty' can be a bit confusing. Our best approach is saying 'unpartitioned' to indicate that a disk has no partitions inside of it. I believe the wording is as clear as can be for this, if you have a specific suggestion on how you'd like to improve it please open a PR and I can review it. Thank you for filing feedback!