Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices

2011-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote In that case, you have a different situation since there is clearly a partition on the disk. The partition table may be slightly faulty, hence the need for fdisk. Recreating the partition table with fdisk should fix that

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:38:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:21:50PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote This came up recently with a different subject. Your device does not have a partition table, instead the filesystem occupies the whole device (sometimes referred to as a

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices

2011-10-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:21:50PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote This came up recently with a different subject. Your device does not have a partition table, instead the filesystem occupies the whole device (sometimes referred to as a superfloppy format). There's nothing wrong with this, I have