Re: is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?
- From: Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:32:23 +0100
"freegnu" <freegnu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
is there an Boot Sector or Partition Table on usb flash disk?
Most usb flash disks contain a master boot record with a partition table.
When mounting those disks you should do something like:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
However, I have seen at least one mp3 player which didn't have partitions,
instead it should be mounted with:
mount /dev/sda /mnt/hd
With such a usb flash disk you might be a little confused. The system has
no way to know if there is a partition table and you might assume that the
disk contains a partition table. By interpreting the contents in the
beginning of the disk as a partition table you get something that looks
like a broken partition table containing partitions with strange ids and
geometries.
regards Henrik
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