Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-19 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/19/2014 08:32 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 04/19/2014 02:13 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/17/2014 08:08 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: # file -s -k /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x76 seems like the partition /dev/sdf1 contains an x86 boot sector - so what do I mount?? where is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-19 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/19/2014 02:13 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/17/2014 08:08 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: # file -s -k /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x76 seems like the partition /dev/sdf1 contains an x86 boot sector - so what do I mount?? where is the data? It's lacking a lot of the paramet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/17/2014 08:08 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > # file -s -k /dev/sdf1 > /dev/sdf1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x76 > > seems like the partition /dev/sdf1 contains an x86 boot sector - so what do I > mount?? where is the data? It's lacking a lot of the parameters I wold expect to see there, e.g.:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/18/2014 05:32 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/17/2014 12:26 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/16/2014 11:05 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: when I tried dd if=/dev/sdf of=somefile count=100 i get: somefile: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0xc3072e18; partition 1: ID=0x7, starthead

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/17/2014 12:26 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 04/16/2014 11:05 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> >> when I tried dd if=/dev/sdf of=somefile count=100 i get: >> >> somefile: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0xc3072e18; >> partition 1: ID=0x7, starthead 0, startsector 8064, 15626368 sect

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/16/2014 11:05 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > when I tried dd if=/dev/sdf of=somefile count=100 i get: > > somefile: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0xc3072e18; > partition 1: ID=0x7, starthead 0, startsector 8064, 15626368 sectors, code > offset 0xc0 > > still not much wiser I'm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/17/2014 09:03 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 18:26 +1200, Rob Kampen wrote: On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote: On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to moun

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-16 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 18:26 +1200, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > > >> On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > >>> I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully > >>> patched CentO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-15 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote: On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-14 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully >> patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. >> >> The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with >> no special d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully > patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. > > The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with > no special drivers installed. most USB sticks are formatted FAT32 --

[CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-14 Thread Rob Kampen
I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with no special drivers installed. fdisk -l /dev/sdf gives the following: Disk /dev/sdf: 8004 MB, 8004829184 bytes 102 heads