Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

>>>> 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".  the filesystem usb/disk
> presents
> does not do partitions.  of course the disk drive itself doesn't
> know or care
> it's been partitioned.

Ah, I wondered if it might be that, but I had to check. So, no fixing
usb/disk?