Memory stick address

[Chris Jones]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have 2 memory sticks now and if I plug in both you get this with df:
> 
> /dev/sdf1              2014944        32   2014912   1% /media/KINGSTON
> /dev/sdg1              3940796     18508   3922288   1% /media/disk
> 
> For some reason my Ubuntu adds the 1 to both of them.
> 
> Karl
> 

This is perfectly normal.

You need to understand the difference between devices and partitions.

/dev/sdf and /dev/sdf are devices (you probably also have /dev/sda, 
/dev/sdb for other devices, such as internal hard-drives for instance).

You cannot mount devices, only partitions. Each device can have more 
than one parition. The first partition on  /dev/sdf will be /dev/sdf1. 
If you had a second (which it seems you don't) it would be /dev/sdf2 and 
so on. Each partition can be formatted completely differently (ext3, 
NTFS, Fat32 etc.) and can be individually mounted.

Chris