Hi, > > On 1/22/07, Chris Fanning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've read that LTSP-4.2 update 3 added support for un-partitioned USB > >> Memory sticks to be properly recognized as a local device. > >> > >> I've just updated and plugged in a usb pendrive that reports from dmesg > >> sda: unknown partition table
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:00:46AM -0600, Todd Shoemaker wrote: > I can't imagine how one would mount an unpartitioned drive, unless it > (the machine) automatically partitioned the drive for you, which is a > bad idea, since it could lead to good data being lost if the machine > made a mistake and tried to 'help' by partitioning a good drive. I had the same problem with a USB stick but funnily I could mount it with: mount /dev/sda /mnt All the data was readable. Some time ago I read a note (don't remember where), that some manufacturers do it this way to save some hundred bytes of the partition table. Todd, would you advise to always reformat and partition such sticks. Maybe it's not worth the effort to find some workaround. But if there only would be a change of some few characters in a nice udev rule I would be happy if these users also could use their sticks under Linux like under MS-Windows. Helmut -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel. +49 (0)5034/871-128 Institut für Tierzucht 31535 Neustadt Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
