From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RB7PH-00073P-Vx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:59:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F85621C253; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7E121C0AA for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so888082wwg.10 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=uCiq5rc89AmZmdK5Ai7HE4Z0n5Kiwgx6YviBEJPAIXE=; b=ND5WphjgaS20Dc2qE4dJ8JUVEONcEEL8w/xDtUXeWnTUCjzZZldaSqejS5T9aBgPCI A+UaMSb3bBqKIaUJiJNr1yHg4ya+9O+n+bC7r7kq3/3eYj7aBZcNHeHV/E1Yx/86vOCD Ffdkrwj8OXho7cL0X3Y6kFHA4TdUwWhS0BuKc= Received: by 10.227.179.76 with SMTP id bp12mr66836wbb.82.1317743856730; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l40sm4676367wbm.10.2011.10.04.08.57.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:57:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange partition on USB stick Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:58:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110032316.11950.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201110040618.46748.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3136570.47BQrK7G0K"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110040759.09558.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9b3e8357fd462736c7be8b4814a1ab4e --nextPart3136570.47BQrK7G0K Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 06:27:50 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 04:39:45 Adam Carter wrote: > >> If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to create an image of the > >> drive, then run testdisk over that image to see if it can untangle the > >> partition table mess. Both are in portage. > >=20 > > Well, that's the thing: I'm not sure that there is a mess. At least n= ot > > as far as parted is concerned, which can read the partition table > > properly. > >=20 > > I suspect that fdisk (unlike parted) is not capable of reading the devi= ce > > correctly. > >=20 > > I forgot to say that when mounted the USB stick shows not partitions > > (i.e. there is no sdb1, sdb2, etc.) To access the fs I must do > > something like: > >=20 > > pmount /dev/sdb > >=20 > > and then all is lists under /media/sdb. It is like a big floppy. >=20 > I think that's your answer. The "partition table" looks funny because > it isn't one. :) It is somewhat common. I've had some myself that are > like that. If there isn't a partition table, then why fdisk sees /dev/sdb1-4 with=20 somewhat strange ID types? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3136570.47BQrK7G0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk6Krr0ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaQIgCaA+D6JROFY7STWbq6kL2INIrn h2QAoIU6aWkTc2UhwEzW9eazfGsGXFpC =rlOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3136570.47BQrK7G0K--