4 GB USB memory arrived
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat May 24 18:45:19 UTC 2008
Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> He said I should see the devise not
>> the file system but in fact on real hard drives we have partitions with
>> a file system mounted.
>>
>
> Well, if you want to use fdisk, you should use the disk, not the
> partition. That's why it is called fdisk and not fpartition :) As fdisk
> doesn't see a partition table at /dev/sdf1 it complains about a bad disk.
> The partition table is at /dev/sdf instead.
>
> Now if you mount something it is not an entire disk but a partition, which
> would be /dev/sdf1.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
Not so at all Nils. I put the partitions on the stick with $fdisk
/dev/sdf and I have a VFAT now at /dev/sdf1 and a ext3 at /dev/sdf2. I
made /dev/sdf1 bootable and it works fine.
Karl
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