Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 12:16 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:59:13 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > That's because you are trying to mount the whole device, not the
> > > partition.
> >
> > Even the whole device should be a block device, shouldn't it?
>
> Yes it should, it's podd that is appears as a character device.

It isn't. Read my very first answer.

> > And if it
> > had a filesystem, you could even mount it, having one partition is as
> > good as having no partition, at least for Linux.
>
> It's not the same. A filesystem on a single partition filling the device
> is not the same as a filesystem on the device itself. Both are possible,
> and mountable, but not at the same time. I've just checked with with a
> single partition device to be sure, it didn't work.

Of course not at the same time, thought that would be clear :-)

> I do that for some drives, but my USB sticks are always a single
> partition, so I give the name to the partition not the device. I also set
> NAME and put %k in SYMLINK, because pmount uses the name to create the
> directory in /media, and I want the device mounted
> at /media/somethingmeaningful, not /media/sdxn.

Good point, I switched to hal/dbus not long ago. Seems I need to rework my 
rules :-)

Bye...

	Dirk
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