Re: [gentoo-user] Strange partition on USB stick

[Mick]

On Tuesday 04 Oct 2011 04:39:45 Adam Carter wrote:
> If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to create an image of the
> drive, then run testdisk over that image to see if it can untangle the
> partition table mess. Both are in portage.

Well, that's the thing:  I'm not sure that there is a mess.  At least not as 
far as parted is concerned, which can read the partition table properly.  

I suspect that fdisk (unlike parted) is not capable of reading the device 
correctly.

I forgot to say that when mounted the USB stick shows not partitions (i.e. 
there is no sdb1, sdb2, etc.)  To access the fs I must do something like:

pmount /dev/sdb

and then all is lists under /media/sdb.  It is like a big floppy.
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Regards,
Mick