Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-31 Thread Wilbert Knol
Suggest 'fdisk /dev/sdb' to check out the partition table on the unmounted device - make a back-up first. I have a 128 MByte '3-inch' USB flash drive that occasionally ends up with a thrashed partition table - although I always unmount and eject it properly. I've tried various file-systems on i

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > That didn't work, which I tried first (mount /dev/sdb1). mount told me to > specify file system type. I said /dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1. > Besides, merely mount /dev/sdb will definately won't work, since there are > apparently partitions in

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:43:28 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able >> to because I don't know how to properly mount it. > > The answer depends on which kernel version

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:40:53 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: >> I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I >> tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful >> files from the mount: > > usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you inform

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Bruno Buys
T wrote: Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: > Hi, > > I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able > to because I don't know how to properly mount it. > The answer depends on which kernel version you are running, because there has been a switch from something

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I > tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful > files from the mount: usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you information a

Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1003 * 51