4 GB USB memory arrived

[Karl Larsen]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     He said I should see the devise not 
>> the file system but in fact on real hard drives we have partitions with
>> a file system mounted.
>>     
>
> Well, if you want to use fdisk, you should use the disk, not the 
> partition. That's why it is called fdisk and not fpartition :) As fdisk 
> doesn't see a partition table at /dev/sdf1 it complains about a bad disk. 
> The partition table is at /dev/sdf instead.
>
> Now if you mount something it is not an entire disk but a partition, which 
> would be /dev/sdf1.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
    I have not got Ubuntu on my 2 Gb stick working yet, but I sure 
learned a lot about the way to work with these removable hard drives! 
The same old fdisk and mkfs we use with normal installed hard drives 
work the same way.

Karl


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