From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40911260551n5b7fe01fmcca188c5e75d74a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <49764ee32d7aa5f3d5e70f6d797e39c5@brasstown.quanstro.net> <8ccc8ba40911260551n5b7fe01fmcca188c5e75d74a8@mail.gmail.com> 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 14:37:22 +0000 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] usb disks in plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a22a1c16-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 26 Nov 2009, at 1:51 pm, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > 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. ahh, ok, that makes sense. > > 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". 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? >> >> >> >