[CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

On 04/17/2014 09:03 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 18:26 +1200, Rob Kampen wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>> file when applied /dev/sdf/(1) indicted a block device - nothing else
>> helpful.
> Try as root:
> dd if=/dev/sdf1 of=somefile count=100
> file somefile
that gave me:

somefile: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x76

when I tried dd if=/dev/sdf of=somefile count=100 i get:

somefile: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0xc3072e18; 
partition 1: ID=0x7, starthead 0, startsector 8064, 15626368 sectors, 
code offset 0xc0

still not much wiser I'm afraid. My understanding of the MBR is rough, 
certainly insufficient to debug this. the frustration is that windoze is 
quite happy to mount and read it just fine.
> regards, Louis
>
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