Re: Using USB pen drive



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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 it...

Those "partitions" are the misinterpretation of the filesystem data as a
partition table. There is a very good chance that /dev/sdb contains a file
system. Try it before saying it won't work.

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