Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test9 VFAT problem | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:06:07 -0500 |
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On Friday 14 November 2003 14:03, Andries Brouwer wrote: >On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:51:57AM -0000, Patrick Beard wrote: >> > > My fstab entry is; >> > > /dev/sda /mnt/smedia vfat rw,user,noauto 0,0 >> > >> > I would guess that you have to mount /dev/sda1 or perhaps >> > /dev/sda4. Isn't that what you do under 2.4? >> >> Yes, with 2.4 I used sda1. When I first compiled 2.6 I used sda1 >> but I got the 'wrong fs..' error. This was a clean install of >> debian so I didn't have my original fstab. I checked the web and >> noticed people using sda. so I tried that - same error. In trying >> to get this to work I've used sda and sda1 at different times both >> gave the same errors. > >Good. > >Maybe you know already, but just to be sure: >You must use sda if the thing has no partition table. >You must use sda1 if the thing has a partition table. > >So, if sda1 works under 2.4, then sda is certainly wrong under 2.6 - >your device would just look like garbage and the error messages are >meaningless. >Only try sda1, and report whatever goes wrong in that case. > >Andries
I just played 210 monkeys, and /dev/sda doesn't work for mount, but sda1 does. Both work for a read by dd FWTW. Links suitably restored.
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