Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:47:23 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > It's an SD card, not a "drive", so I had not expected it to be > > partitioned; but yes, it is: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/da0* > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 244 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0 > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 245 Feb 14 15:09 /dev/da0s1 > > Why don't you expect this? As far as I know, if something is > msdosfs-formatted (read: any "Windows" readable file system, > FAT), it always involves a "slice device". I never found a > situation where access to /dev/da0 would work.
My experience is exactly the reverse. I've never before seen a removable-media device (floppy, Zip-drive, JAZ drive) that *did* have a DOS "partition" table aka BSD "slice" table. Surely you would not expect a USB floppy to show up as /dev/da0s1? AFAIK the reason for creating slices is to identify sections of the device for use by different OS -- something often needed for multi-boot from a hard drive but seldom on removable media. I sure wasn't planning to use part of this SD card for my camera to store pictures on, and the rest for FreeBSD backups :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
