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 -- Powered by SuSE 8.1pro - KDE 3.0.3 - KMail 1.4.3 At least, try asking smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Netiquette is easy: http://learn.to/edit_messages ...and you'll get flame-free answers in no time. ------------------------------------------------------- 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