From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fof3o-00040x-6T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:21:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59BKCsj023118; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:20:12 GMT Received: from mgw-ext13.nokia.com (mgw-ext13.nokia.com [131.228.20.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59BFDg2017012 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:15:14 GMT Received: from esebh106.NOE.Nokia.com (esebh106.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.138.213]) by mgw-ext13.nokia.com (Switch-3.1.8/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k59BFDIZ000818 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:15:13 +0300 Received: from esebh001.NOE.Nokia.com ([172.21.138.28]) by esebh106.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:15:11 +0300 Received: from louisa.europe.nokia.com ([172.25.104.26]) by esebh001.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6881); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:15:11 +0300 From: Dirk Heinrichs Organization: Capgemini Deutschland GmbH To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:15:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200606090112.51693.daevid@daevid.com> <200606091059.14028.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <20060609111653.64a97d0c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060609111653.64a97d0c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3984874.sI5GEKV9D1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606091315.10901.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jun 2006 11:15:11.0226 (UTC) FILETIME=[F92A05A0:01C68BB5] X-Archives-Salt: 0dd410ab-25af-449b-94b5-794ff0c41d99 X-Archives-Hash: 0ee8e26806d2371d7c318f09b9b14ab2 --nextPart3984874.sI5GEKV9D1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 rules :-) Bye... Dirk =2D-=20 Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinrichs@capgemini.com Hambornerstra=C3=9Fe 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 D=C3=BCsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net --nextPart3984874.sI5GEKV9D1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEiVg+8NVtnsLkZ7sRAvM+AJ0dGjEX2NgXjemBonsvvVgHxQT9dgCeOHWh xCo4i3eK2fiu0xSCI8u2LIE= =mD6X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3984874.sI5GEKV9D1-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list