On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:27, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote: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.
/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
With the usbkey mounted, you might try the command "fdisk -l" to see what it reports about the partitions, if any.
-- Fritz Whittington Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!
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