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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:48:41 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] usb flash drive problem
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> when I plug in my flash drive and write usbfat: I can see there exists
> /dev/sdU3.0 directory which I can list giving me
> ctl
> data
> raw
>
> However, 'data' is not a directory into which I could cd...
> What's wrong?

data is never a directory.  it's the partition representing
the whole disk.  data exists iff nsectors > 0.

usbfat: finds the first fat fs on each usb disk and mounts
it in /n/sdU*.

- erik