Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) is the access control. While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as administrator, the individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) can be both read and written without needing administrator mode.
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