Hello Bob, Not sure what you mean with "use it as it" you don't have to format it or anything, can you access it from your desktop I.E it auto mounts it and places a icon of it on your deskop so you can access the flash drive from there? Regards Per Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote: > > I received a Father's day gift - PNY 4 Gig flash drive. > > FC-6 sees it as /dev/sdc1, /media/USB2FD and fdisk reports as below. > How do I > Use this gadget? I think I saw something on the list advising > not to reformat or change the file system? > > Can I use it as is and how do I deal with it? > > Bob Goodwin > > > Disk /dev/sdc1: 4127 MB, 4127178752 bytes > 127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes > > This doesn't look like a partition table > Probably you selected the wrong device. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdc1p1 ? 245877 481063 925929529+ 68 Unknown > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(245876, 10, 29) > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(481062, 82, 59) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sdc1p2 ? 168934 237384 269488144 79 Unknown > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(168933, 92, 47) > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(237383, 108, 42) > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sdc1p3 ? 68452 246045 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 > Aux3 > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(68451, 100, 18) > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(246044, 29, 49) > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sdc1p4 ? 177119 177121 10668+ 49 Unknown > Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(177118, 8, 36) > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(177120, 98, 44) > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > -- Nomachine Thin Client Solution <www.nomachine.com> Nblade Modular Server Solutions <http://www.gls-net.net/> Omni Accounting Package <http://www.omniaccounts.co.za/> Certified NOD32 Partners <http://www.nod32.co.za>
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