On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:57:21 Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On 29/06/10 11:50, Saxon Landers wrote: > >> Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any > >> mistakes. > >> > >> I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone > >> for LFS. > >> I am compiling onto a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb portable USB flash drive, so i > >> am using /dev/sdb (without a specific partition) to save space. > > > > Is that even possible? How are you going to mount it if it doesn't have > > a partition? > > The mount command should be able to mount anything with a file system > in it. CD-ROMS don't have partitions, nor do "native" USB sticks, > nor floppies, nor ISO images, nor other files with file systems > in them. AFAIK, there's no file system type defined for tapes, > but with the proper definitions and driver, one would be able > to mount a tape. I've done so with other operating systems > which have that capability.
An explicit example: 'mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt'. Oh, some USB sticks have partitions, but perhaps they aren't 'native'? If one is clever, one can create partition tables within partitions. And mount those subpartition partitions once they contain filesystems. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
