Karmic: how to delete /dev/sr1

[Jerry Lapham]

On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:43:03 pm Nils Kassube wrote:

> Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> > I have an external USB hard disk from Western Digital (model My
> >  Passport).
> >
> > This unit comes with two partitions, that I see and I can mount:
> >
> >     * /dev/sr1 that is understood as a CD
> >     * /dev/sdb1 that is a normal NTFS partition
> >
> > If I mount the partitions "mount" says:
> >
> > ...
> > /dev/sr1 on /media/WD SmartWare type udf
> > (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)
> > /dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type fuseblk
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
> >
> > The problem is tah I'm not able to destroy, eliminate, kill :-) the
> > /dev/sr1 partition
> 
> You could try it with a hammer. But be careful, you might damage the
> sdb1 partition. :)
> 
> More seriously, I think you can't remove it. According to the mount
> point I would assume the disk label is "WD SmartWare" and that suggests
> it has a driver for Windows which probably gets automatically loaded if
> you connect the device to a Windows machine. This "partition" is
> probably located in the system flash rom of the disk and it isn't usable
> like a normal partition anyway.

I have a similar situation with a 4GB USB flash memory stick.  Mount shows it 
as follows:

/dev/sr1 on /media/Ativa U3 System type iso9660 
(ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,utf8)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My 4GB type vfat 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=mixed,flush)

I assume the iso9660 is the reason you can't delete the sr1 partition.  Seems 
a shame  to waste 4MB on Windows apps.

	-Jerry
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