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`part.c`

Written by Neal in 2001, 2002.

Useful if the microkernel / [[DDE]] / [[microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/Xen]]
doesn't export *partition devices*, but only *raw* devices.

Neal:

> The motivation was to be able to evict the partitioning logic from Mach.


# Booting

A similar problem is described in
[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot]], and needs to be implemented.


# TODO

How to use, etc.