On 09/26/2018 07:51 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> the second is an
> external 2 Tbyte USB harddrive with a XFS file system that is a dd copy
> of a partition from another SL 7 machine (that is having difficulties --
> the partition is /home and the data is important).
Wouldn't a dd copy wipe out
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
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
> 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
