On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:17, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> 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!

Gee, well, I'm learning... =) ...thanks. I thought it was strange that it 
worked at all, but didn't know that it would do any harm.

greetz,
Johannes

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