USB Flash stick

[Chadley Wilson]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 06:57, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 06:28 5/17/2004, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> >Just a question, Why is it that my flash stick formatted fat32 works on
> >all linux and Winoze systems, but no-one else's flash sticks will work.
> 
> Not guaranteed to be true, but I think it's correct:
> 
> Some manufacturers are lazy/bored/cheap/whatever and do not create a 
> partition table on such disks, just the vfat filesystem. Windows is either 
> sloppy enough or smart enough (pick your point of view) to see that and not 
> care, and it reads the filesystem without having a partition table. Linux 
> is stricter and barfs. So create a new partition table in Linux, and 
> create+format a filesystem, then both Linux and Windows should be able to 
> read it well.
> 
> >mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> 
> This is IIRC why some disks/sticks won't accept /dev/sda1... there *is no* 
> /dev/sda1. There is only /dev/sda, the whole device, there are no partitions.
> 
> FWIW, on the few disks I have, I immediately created a new partition table, 
> a new vfat partiiton/filesystem, and formatted it. Haven't had a single 
> problem yet. All disks work well, although of course I've tested a few not 
> hundreds.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Cheers,
Rodolfo J. Paiz
I am sure you re right here , I took my colleges mem stick ran fdisk on
it and would you believe it there is no partition, But there is data, I
created one with my linux box, and its sorted.
Thanks

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