Re: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you for you comments. Below is the output from mount /dev/sdc1 on /run/media/ykarant/USB20FD type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2) /dev/sdb on

Re: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Gilles Detillieux
If a device has actual partitions, using a standard partitioning scheme, even if it's just a single partition, then Linux should detect that and create the appropriate device nodes in /dev. While less common than a single partition covering most of the disk, some smaller drives or devices have

RE: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Howard, Chris
> Why do parted and mount have this difference? /dev/sdg1 ? What he said. /dev/sdg is the whole device /dev/sdg1 is the first partition on that device. Partitions have file systems. Partitions with file systems can be mounted. parted works on the whole device. mount works on the partitions

parted and mount

2018-09-26 Thread Yasha Karant
I have attempted to mount USB external formatted media on a SL7 system. One was a flash drive with a MS format (reported by parted as FAT32); the other was a 2 Tbyte hard drive XFS formatted on a different SL7 system. In both cases, the system automatically generated /dev/sdg when the USB