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Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 12:16 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: |
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> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:59:13 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> > > That's because you are trying to mount the whole device, not the |
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> > > partition. |
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> > Even the whole device should be a block device, shouldn't it? |
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> Yes it should, it's podd that is appears as a character device. |
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It isn't. Read my very first answer. |
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> > And if it |
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> > had a filesystem, you could even mount it, having one partition is as |
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> > good as having no partition, at least for Linux. |
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> It's not the same. A filesystem on a single partition filling the device |
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> is not the same as a filesystem on the device itself. Both are possible, |
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> and mountable, but not at the same time. I've just checked with with a |
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> single partition device to be sure, it didn't work. |
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Of course not at the same time, thought that would be clear :-) |
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> I do that for some drives, but my USB sticks are always a single |
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> partition, so I give the name to the partition not the device. I also set |
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> NAME and put %k in SYMLINK, because pmount uses the name to create the |
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> directory in /media, and I want the device mounted |
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> at /media/somethingmeaningful, not /media/sdxn. |
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Good point, I switched to hal/dbus not long ago. Seems I need to rework my |
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rules :-) |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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