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 1RIV58-00066Y-NF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:41:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 053B821C0AE; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A776621C035 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:40:11 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At8NABAFpk5MCpgt/2dsb2JhbABDmhWNboEPgQaBbgEBBAE6HCgLCzQSFCUuCYgAtHCHX2EEmUOHeIRF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,400,1315195200"; d="scan'208";a="144183139" Received: from 76-10-152-45.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.152.45]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 24 Oct 2011 20:40:10 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:40:20 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:40:19 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices Message-ID: <20111025004019.GA901@waltdnes.org> References: <20111022000321.GA26680@waltdnes.org> <20111022212150.2cc8ebe6@digimed.co.uk> <20111023033845.GA30216@waltdnes.org> <20111023120723.489206dd@digimed.co.uk> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111023120723.489206dd@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 206e92533114d85eb0b70dc2f2876da4 On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > In that case, you have a different situation since there is clearly a > partition on the disk. The partition table may be slightly faulty, hence > the need for fdisk. Recreating the partition table with fdisk should fix > that permanently. I thought about this, and decided not to. This is how the phone set up the mini-SD card. If I change things, then I don't know how the phone would react. The main concern is that it work properly in the phone. I can work around its idiosyncrasies in linux whenever I need to transfer photos off the phone, or other stuff to the phone. -- Walter Dnes