On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Will Hill wrote: > Yesterday, someone gave me a USB stick with a weird fat32 partition. It > refused to even mount and cfdisk would not touch it. fdisk noted that it had > different "virtual" and "physical" endings. I left it alone and gave it > back.
When i've encountered this with USB sticks or CF cards, i normally make a dd image of the device, then disconnect the hardware. Then you can run any kind of fsck on the image you want. Had a cf card where the fat was totally trashed, but was able to save a few digital pics off that the owner thought were just unrecoverable. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
