On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:59:13 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > That's because you are trying to mount the whole device, not the > > partition. > > Even the whole device should be a block device, shouldn't it?
Yes it should, it's podd that is appears as a character device.
> And if it
> had a filesystem, you could even mount it, having one partition is as
> good as having no partition, at least for Linux.
It's not the same. A filesystem on a single partition filling the device
is not the same as a filesystem on the device itself. Both are possible,
and mountable, but not at the same time. I've just checked with with a
single partition device to be sure, it didn't work.
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?1", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0845",
> > SYSFS{idVendor}=="08ec", NAME="gigabyte", SYMLINK="%k usb/gigabyte"
>
> OK, here is what I do :-)
>
> BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sd*", SYSFS{model}=="HardDrive ",
> SYSFS{rev}=="1.11", SYSFS{vendor}=="32MB ", SYMLINK="usb/stick%n"
>
> This will give me nodes for the device itself and its partitions.
I do that for some drives, but my USB sticks are always a single
partition, so I give the name to the partition not the device. I also set
NAME and put %k in SYMLINK, because pmount uses the name to create the
directory in /media, and I want the device mounted
at /media/somethingmeaningful, not /media/sdxn.
--
Neil Bothwick
This fortune soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess memory.
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