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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hoo1T-00067q-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 22:00:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HLwmjE001962; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:58:48 GMT Received: from dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (static-adsl-b-16-58.ipcom.comunitel.net [212.145.239.58] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HLsVDF029805 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:54:32 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HLsRvl032093 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 23:54:28 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:27:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705171638.54090.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705171704.23751.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705171704.23751.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705180027.03766.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 8841743d-6728-4ea0-ae05-1da48b6c9d5f X-Archives-Hash: 43b969cc455ab823e196ba6b70f29d49 On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote: > > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by > > running: > > > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 > > > > But couldn't access it whatsoever. > > Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! > Right, I've got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it: > ================================== > # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > ================================== IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback filesystem. If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere and make sure you have support for loopback devices in your kernel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list