Your message dated Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:43:11 -0400
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and subject line MP3 players: can mount(1) fine, but [cs]fdisk say "unknown
partition table"
has caused the Debian Bug report #463758,
regarding MP3 players: can mount(1) fine, but [cs]fdisk say "unknown partition
table"
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.13.1-1
It seems from http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sda:+unknown+partition+table%22
that there is a new world of pendrives, MP3 players, that
upon insertion give in dmesg:
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB 2.0 (HS) Flash Disk 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4008881 512-byte hardware sectors (2053 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 c0 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
and fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc. can't deal with due to "unknown
partition table".
All one wants to do is use fdisk -l /dev/sda.
However
# mount /dev/sda /mnt
works fine and the disk is mounted as vfat and all files are visible.
Therefore something about fdisk etc. is behind the times.
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This is not a bug; if you don't have a partition table, then you don't
have a partition table.
I'm not sure why you would ever see this normally though since I'm
pretty certain Windows will not mount such a device, so manufacturers
always put a partition table on.
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