On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@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.

--Russell
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