I can't recall if I asked this before, but I am looking at a partition on a USB stick which seems to have a FAT16 fs on it and in parted says:
================================================== Model: Crucial Gizmo! overdrive (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1023MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 1023MB 1023MB fat16 ================================================== What does "Partition Table: loop" mean? fdisk -l is more confusing: ================================================== Disk /dev/sdb: 1022 MB, 1022623744 bytes 32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders, total 1997312 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 ? 1869771365 2038460886 84344761 69 Unknown /dev/sdb2 ? 1701519481 3571400945 934940732+ 73 Unknown /dev/sdb3 ? 2573 2573 0 74 Unknown /dev/sdb4 0 3435113471 1717556736 0 Empty Partition table entries are not in disk order ================================================== What are the partitions shown as sdb1-4? Also Id 73 and 74 are I think reserved Ids? Id 69 is I think Novell Netware 5+ (according to: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html) not FAT16. I am not sure I understand what it is showing me. BTW, cfdisk spews it out right from the start: ================================================== FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition begins after end-of-disk Press any key to exit cfdisk ================================================== So, does it have a partition table? How can you explain the fdisk output? -- Regards, Mick
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