FC2 and USB-Storage

[Chadley Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:08, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> Nuno Tavares wrote:
> > It says nothing. Not even an error.
> > 
> > # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> > #
> > 
> 
> Have you tried mounting it like this ...
> 
>     mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/whatever
> 
> or
> 
>     mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever
> 
> 
> How many scsi devices do you have in your system? Maybe it's
> not sda...
> 
> try fdisk -l without giving a device to it.
> 
> Alex
Sorry I am picked up on this thread a bit late.
Just info maybe it will help you.
I had a run in with USB Flash sticks recently. And I discovered that
when you partition it, it will give you an error.The error is normal.
Although I haven't a stick to partition now to show you the output. The
reason for the error is that windows2000/XP doesn't actually create a
partition on the stick and in some cases when it does create one, it (or
the user) makes it extended. That is why you can't mount the bugger in
Linux :-<. Once you create an ms-dos partition then you can go cross
platform with it.
Windows is slack in this regard it allows you to mount the stick in raw
format without a partition table and save to it, on the other hand Linux
is much stricter and won't mount unless the partition table is present.
Linux for some reason also can't or won't mount an extended dos
partition on the MEM-stick. So the fix is to create a primary dos
partition on the stick. you can then re-format it in both Linux and Win.
Yu can create the partition in win with fdisk or Linux with fdisk as
well.
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