Re: is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?

thanks for your answer ,
i have make sure that there are boot sector on the usb flash disk, and i
used dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 to read the boot sector

"Sebastian" <bastisoft@xxxxxxxx> дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:4594326b$0$18833$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi all,
is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?

A bootsector is present, if you wish so, as well as a partition table.
Usually, every usb disk or stick or whatever has a partition table -
simply
to correspond to the needs of a BIOS or any Microsoft operating system.
Using Linux, you can get rid of it (by simply putting your file system
into
e.g. /dev/hda instead of e.g. /dev/hda2), but this is non-standard.

Take this answer as a "yes" to your question.

Regards,
Sebastian




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