Help understanding mounting usb

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Wed Aug 3 22:09:51 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:45:46AM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 07:55 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Is there any reason why you have a partition on the device at all? My
>> experience is that USB storage devices have their filesystem on the
>> device, i.e. there is only /dev/sda no /dev/sda1.
>Hi Magnus...
>
>Could you _please_ elaborate more on the subject!  From *my* experience,
>a partition is *required* in order to use the device.  I never saw a
>storage device (whatever it's, removable or not) that doesn't have
>partitions on it, even a 256MiB USB stick-disk I regularly use.

Ok. no worries.

First my experience isn't huge, but it does involve 2 memory sticks and
a digital camera.

All three devices had, when I bought them, no partitions. They all
showed up as /dev/sda, with a file system on it. I didn't dare fiddling
too much with the camera, but one of the sticks I partitioned (using
'cfdisk') into two partitions (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2). One partition
has a VFAT filesystem and the other has ext2. The other stick I've
reformatted (Windows machines have FUBARed it twice) with the following
command line:

 $ mkfs.vfat /dev/sda

After that I can mount it using

 $ pmount /dev/sda

/M

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