On 26 Nov 2009, at 1:51 pm, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
usb/disk knows how to handle units.
Some devices provide their units to handle parts.
Regarding partitions, usb/disk does not know how to
handle partitions. And it's likely it will never do.
The plan is to use a different driver that knows how
to handle partitions and use that driver for everything.
But it's still ongoing.
ahh, ok, that makes sense.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
Usb disks don't know how to handle partitions.
You have to use partfs IIRC or some other tool to
partition it.
Erm, every USB thumb drive, SD card, or CF card I've used has had a
partition table. Memories of mounting the things under Windows are
too distant to be useful, but OS X not only expects a partition
table, I don't think it can 'prepare' a USB disk without one. Linux
automounters expect a partition table too, whether the kernel-based
automounter or whatever Gnome uses.
Am I off target by a country mile here?
usb/disk was intended, not "Usb disks". the filesystem usb/disk
presents
does not do partitions. of course the disk drive itself doesn't
know or
care
it's been partitioned.
Ah, I wondered if it might be that, but I had to check. So, no fixing
usb/disk?
