On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > >> On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully >>> patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. >>> >>> The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with >>> no special drivers installed. >> most USB sticks are formatted FAT32 >> > Also keep in mind that the partition type is only a *hint*. It's just a flag that's set in the partition. What is actually in the partition does not need to match what is on the disk. > > Some utilities will use it for autodetection purposes, etc., and some will completely ignore it and blindly do whatever you ask. > > "file" is a good tool to find out what's actually on the partition. tried VFAT, NTFS, HFS HFSPLUS MSDOS - all gave error messages & USBFS the usbfs did mount and gave me seven directories named 001 through 007 and one file called "devices" - this in no way resembles what is actually on the usb drive. file when applied /dev/sdf/(1) indicted a block device - nothing else helpful. I guess there is thus a new ntfs format out there that ntfs-3g does not recognise. Any other way to read / deal with this?? > --Russell > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos