Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

[Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote:

> 
> So if it really is partitioned, we'll have to figure out why the
> kernel is not seeing your partition table.  I would be interested to
> see the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' with the stick inserted.
> 
No /dev/sda. But there exists /dev/plextor_memstick. However:
	root@jmaa ~ $ fdisk -l plextor_memstick
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ mount -t auto /dev/plextor_memstick /mnt/pen
	mount: block device /dev/plextor_memstick is write-protected, mounting
	read-only
	mount: you must specify the filesystem type
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ ls /mnt/pen
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ umount /mnt/pen
	umount: /mnt/pen: not mounted
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ fdisk -l plextor_memstick
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ mount -t vfat /dev/plextor_memstick /mnt/pen
	mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
	/dev/plextor_memstick, missing codepage or other error
	In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
	dmesg | tail  or so

Well, let's try again. I remove the stick and plug it again. Now there
are both /dev/plextor_memstick and /dev/plextor_memstick1 !

	root@jmaa ~ $ mount /mnt/pen
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ ls /mnt/pen
	teste  teste~
	root@jmaa ~ $ cat /etc/fstab|grep pen
	/dev/plextor_memstick1          /mnt/pen        vfat noauto,user,noexec,nodev,rw,noatime,conv=auto,uni_xlate,posix   0 0
	root@jmaa ~ $ umount /mnt/pen
	~
	root@jmaa ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/plextor_memstick
	Disk /dev/plextor_memstick: 1050 MB, 1050934784 bytes
	129 heads, 19 sectors/track, 837 cylinders
	Units = cylinders of 2451 * 512 = 1254912 bytes
	
	                Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
	/dev/plextor_memstick1   *           1         838     1026294    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
	Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
	     phys=(842, 128, 19) logical=(837, 58, 18)

So, there is really a partition. This is the original partitioning. I
didn't change it because I want to keep it vfat, in case I need to use
it on a Mac (or even on a Windows PC, who knows?).

Would it be a good idea to reformat the disk using fdisk? Maybe the
problem lies with crappy windows tools?


	
Thanks,
Jorge 
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