Hi Sandi,
Thanks for the clarification. If I unmount the drive, it no longer can
be referenced by the device node in /dev, which is interesting. It is as
though once unmounted, the OS forgets about it, but I suspect it has something
to do with the disk subsystem and how it handles devices. Well I'll keep
digging because the info is out there somewhere . :)
THanks,
On Jan 4, 2001, at 3:18 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
> first of all, have never used fdisk under osx so i can be very wrong.
> but when i have done it on linux i usually unmount the drive i wanna fdisk
> and then takes contact with it from the dev folder. Therefore i said as i did.
> try eventually before you mess with it too see how huge it is with fdisk.
> /sandi
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>
>> Sandi,
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not clear on what you are saying here. The device, /dev/disk1
>> does exist, but unlike a "normal" or static /dev file system, I assume that
>> perhaps this works more like the DevFS found in some LInux distros? I have
>> to admit that I am not that familiar with the newer file systems, which is
>> my fault for letting my knowledge get rusty.
>> Can you please clarify what you mean?
>>
>> THanks,
>> On Jan 4, 2001, at 1:41 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
>>
>>> try getting a hold of it from /dev/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>>>
>>>> James, I perhaps should be more clear.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is I cannot find a way to address the device. To explain
>>>> further, the flash drive when mounted, shows up as /dev/disk1s1. However,
>>>> to properly address the device with fdisk, the device must be umounted,
>>>> but when attempting to address the device by
>>>> fdisk /dev/disk1 I receive a "file not found" error. So, my assumption is
>>>> that the disk subsystem handles unmounted devices differently than I
>>>> gather most OpenBSD systems perhaps. I of course do not know for sure and
>>>> any thoughts you have would be appreciated. The man page did not provide
>>>> any information on how to address the problem.
>>>>
>>>> THanks,
>>>> On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:24 AM, James & Nash wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Scott,
>>>>>
>>>>> You wrote:
>>>>>> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the boot
>>>>>> flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb
>>>>>> drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small
>>>>>> Linux distro on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't, but I will look into it for you if you like. In theory, there
>>>>> should be no problem using fdisk as the Terminal is pretty accessible
>>>>> with Voice Over.
>>>>>
>>>>> TC
>>>>> James
>>>>> On 11 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Scott Howell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the boot
>>>>>> flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb
>>>>>> drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small
>>>>>> Linux distro on.
>>>>>>
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