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 1Hp149-0006V0-Q8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 11:56:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4IBswkT013474; Fri, 18 May 2007 11:54:58 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4IBocHZ008369 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 11:50:39 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so455479ugc for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 04:50:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=hqtlQmTMpxX+41fw85F21mQulf/Rz65J0L9gXP8JBSPiIHF3ZiF5a2RmUSzIK08+nuR6INdtSLEaZzuITSKZQ2rOu6/lj1mwD2wFmw1AYzex3ie2VVaykBRMDW48oaTLdmrg1/f4zi4YS+bOI58jMTbxkrvuaoFJgqEXajRT5r0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=PAwBKN0gPBVVKruV9fxaq/baeKbA5UkDzZJv3+qScJ4ueWPJ/18cj4kiS9bM9L1OxqbIxA3bWEXfD63xEN+5aUJF6b4dut2kBIeuhtctw4xI+ISd88wiGOBA2z7cYs7RyOGctxfjR55es5dF2okQoYQx3JnICWkvkxU3/phzKxE= Received: by 10.67.118.8 with SMTP id v8mr1023755ugm.1179489036798; Fri, 18 May 2007 04:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.133.184.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id j2sm1475394ugf.2007.05.18.04.50.34; Fri, 18 May 2007 04:50:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705180929.19407.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705181124.26063.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200705181124.26063.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> 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="nextPart1270315.mUUMiCKgun"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705181250.17314.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f3ef15ca-8d63-4d0d-84a0-4762b28268b0 X-Archives-Hash: 7a1be31d2dcb165c7cd1894c9f892e30 --nextPart1270315.mUUMiCKgun Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 18 May 2007 10:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not > solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no > help, but since you asked for it, here it is). [snip . . . ] Thanks! Things don't always go as they should when I rush through commands= -=20 especially those I am not familiar with. It's crystal clear now. > # mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 > > uses an incorrect syntax for the specification of the loopback device > (which is optional anyway), and does not tell where to mount the > filesystem. So, what you probably want is > > # mount -t vfat -o loop=3D/dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere > > or just simply > > # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere I am getting the same errors as before: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I need to=20 reconstruct the hex of the partition table - but don't know how to do this= =20 and testdisk does not see the device to recover previous partition tables. What now? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1270315.mUUMiCKgun Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGTZLx5Fp0QerLYPcRAt5gAJ9CT+O9HFitM0B9zOwb9ffJWdQ6twCgomam 4Dg65XU6QIYQLWM3b8WtWY4= =RiIP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1270315.mUUMiCKgun-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list