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I can't recall if I asked this before, but I am looking at a partition on a |
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USB stick which seems to have a FAT16 fs on it and in parted says: |
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Model: Crucial Gizmo! overdrive (scsi) |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 1023MB |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B |
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Partition Table: loop |
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Number Start End Size File system Flags |
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1 0.00B 1023MB 1023MB fat16 |
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What does "Partition Table: loop" mean? |
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fdisk -l is more confusing: |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 1022 MB, 1022623744 bytes |
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32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders, total 1997312 sectors |
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Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x69737369 |
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This doesn't look like a partition table |
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Probably you selected the wrong device. |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sdb1 ? 1869771365 2038460886 84344761 69 Unknown |
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/dev/sdb2 ? 1701519481 3571400945 934940732+ 73 Unknown |
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/dev/sdb3 ? 2573 2573 0 74 Unknown |
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/dev/sdb4 0 3435113471 1717556736 0 Empty |
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Partition table entries are not in disk order |
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What are the partitions shown as sdb1-4? |
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Also Id 73 and 74 are I think reserved Ids? Id 69 is I think Novell Netware |
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5+ (according to: |
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http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html) not FAT16. |
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I am not sure I understand what it is showing me. |
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BTW, cfdisk spews it out right from the start: |
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FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition begins after end-of-disk |
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Press any key to exit cfdisk |
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So, does it have a partition table? How can you explain the fdisk output? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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