Johannes Liedtke wrote: > Mounting /dev/sda will still work, but files copied there won't show up on > the device (as expected).
Mounting /dev/sda directly and copying data to it will immediately nuke the stick's file system. Even if it still seems to work after that at first the FS is corrupted and odd problems may appear. Don't do that! Be sure to immediately create a new FS everytime after you mount/umount /dev/sda. Greetings, Gunter Ohrner -- The only way housework could be done in this place was with a shovel or, for preference, a match. -- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad) *** PGP-Verschlüsselung bei eMails erwünscht :-) *** PGP: 0x1128F25F *** ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
