Error reading pen drive

Parshwa Murdia b330bkn at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 15:35:30 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:

> It is possible to format, and mount, a drive without a partition
> table. But you have to mount it manually, because the auto-mount
> software does not know how to handle it. Windows will also have a
> problem with it.

> For that matter, did you know that you can use a drive as one big
> tar archive?  Try it with a pen drive or memory card you don't mind
> re-partitioning afterwards.

> tar -cf /dev/sdc *
> tar -xf /dev/sdc *


A little bit advanced talk.
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia


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