From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <49764ee32d7aa5f3d5e70f6d797e39c5@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <<5E0F0A52-7514-430A-B066-C4D440806E08@fastmail.fm>> <49764ee32d7aa5f3d5e70f6d797e39c5@brasstown.quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ethan Grammatikidis Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:30:13 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1ff1d7c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >>>> 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?