From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <49764ee32d7aa5f3d5e70f6d797e39c5@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:51:06 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40911260551n5b7fe01fmcca188c5e75d74a8@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2128254-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 usb/disk knows how to handle units. Some devices provide their units to handle parts. Regarding partitions, usb/disk does not know how to handle partitions. And it's likely it will never do. The plan is to use a different driver that knows how to handle partitions and use that driver for everything. But it's still ongoing. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: >>>>> Usb disks don't know how to handle partitions. >>>>> You have to use partfs IIRC or some other tool to >>>>> partition it. >>> >>> Erm, every USB thumb drive, SD card, or CF card I've used has had a >>> partition table. Memories of mounting the things under Windows are >>> too distant to be useful, but OS X not only expects a partition >>> table, I don't think it can 'prepare' a USB disk without one. Linux >>> automounters expect a partition table too, whether the kernel-based >>> automounter or whatever Gnome uses. >>> >>> Am I off target by a country mile here? >> >> usb/disk was intended, not "Usb disks". =C2=A0the filesystem usb/disk pr= esents >> does not do partitions. =C2=A0of course the disk drive itself doesn't kn= ow or >> care >> it's been partitioned. > > Ah, I wondered if it might be that, but I had to check. So, no fixing > usb/disk? > > >