On 1/23/07, Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You do not loose some hundred bytes, you loose a cylinder of the faked disk geometry (You can not start a partition on cylinder 0). Depending of faked disk geometry, this can be around 2% of the capacity on a small USB stick. -- Seb, autocuiseur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
