Hi Helmut,
It sounds like there is a problem with the partition table on your USB stick. It might be the consequence of a hardware failure (read or more probably write) at some point. If, as you mention, once you do an fdisk then "p", you can use once again your USB stick, then maybe save everything you have on it, then create a new partition table using fdisk on that disk and format the whole thing. Hope that helps, Greg On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick. > > According to fdisk there is one partition on it > /dev/sde1 38 7839719 3919841 b W95 FAT32 > > which I haven't changed for a long time. > > Whenever I insert this stick, the kernel log shows > /dev/sde but not /dev/sde1 (and there is no file /dev/sde1) > > After Invoking fdisk /dev/sde with a simple 'p' command but nothing > else, this device shows up. > > Has anybody an idea what's going on here? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > >
