On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:26:54PM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:57:24AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > [...] > > > I had a USB stick that would not work in Linux and found out that it > > needed to be re-partitioned and formatted under Linux to work. This > > was from the manufacturers own documentation. > > This has happened to me with most USB sticks I came across. In all > cases, the partition table was screwed up (overlapping partitions). > 'doze doesn't seem to case but Linux refuses to mount it. Overlapping tables is of itself not wrong. Confusing and lame to be sure. However if one partition has a correct filesystem that fits in that same partition it should mount. Other partitions that overlap or are a subset should not... In some cases there is a partition table then in one partition there is another partition table that further subdivides that resource. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Me, I would "Rather" Not.
