On or about 2004-03-15 01:15, Coume -
Lubox.com whipped out a trusty #2
pencil and scribbled:
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:27, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
>>/dev/sda /mnt/flash vfat user,rw O O
>>/dev/sda1 /mnt/iriver vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
>>
>>
>Oh yeah, that should do strange stuff...
>You're mounting the entire disk (sda) on /mnt/flash (which would probably
>fail since it's not likely to look like a valid vfat device)
>Even if it for some reason does NOT fail the next one probably will
>
>In either case - nothing useful can com out of this!
>
>sda == entire disk
>sda1 == first partition on the disk
>
>/Thomas
>
>
In fact I have to use /dev/sda when mounting my usbkey a PQI 256Mo
USB2.0
If I try to mount in under /dev/sda1 or whatever else i will not work...
It took several days to understand that to mount this usbkey I had to
use /dev/sda , don't ask me why I have no clue, but it works ;)
Regards,
Ludo
It's been a *long* time ago since I really knew MS-DOS, but I seem to
remember that it was perfectly valid for a FAT file system to exist on a
disk which had *NO* partitions defined. (Floppies, for instance, are
usually not partitioned, although I think it's possible to do so, by
using hexedit on the MBR.) This is all a leftover from the days before
partition tables were invented. But in the interest of "backwards
compatibility" (and also so as not to have to handle floppies as a
"special case") I suspect it still works that way.
With the usbkey mounted, you might try the command "fdisk -l" to see
what it reports about the partitions, if any.
--
Fritz Whittington
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