Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Fri, 04 Mar:
> It all depends on whether you partitioned your disk-on-key. By default,
> you don't (just like you don't partition floppies). And there's nothing
> wrong about mounting the disk device itself (sda) instead of a partition
> on it (sda1).
except if you want interoperability. most people get their DOK
prepartitioned with part1 formatted as VFAT. this is how windows
machines expect to see it too ("it" being any USB mass storage device,
not to be confused with USB cdrom devices, which are never partitioned)
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >
> >/dev/sda1 ? 3709864 4044566 84344761 69 Unknown
> >
> Duh, it tries to interpret your vfat filesystem as if it was a MBR
> structure.
more exactly, a partition has already started where the partition table
should have been.
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