Help understanding mounting usb

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY zamb at saudi.net.sa
Thu Aug 4 07:06:29 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:09 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks for replying...  This is the first time I heard of that!  I know
it's possible technically, but I never faced myself.  So thanks for your
explanation and conformation of this fact.

Ziyad.




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