Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it.
The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1003 * 512 = 513536 bytes This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 ? 775809 1913904 570754815+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(775808, 8, 13) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(1913903, 14, 4) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 ? 168185 2098423 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(168184, 16, 27) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(2098422, 8, 24) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb3 ? 1864289 3794527 968014096 79 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(1864288, 10, 12) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(3794526, 1, 20) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb4 ? 2877051 2877106 27749+ d Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(2877050, 0, 3) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(2877105, 5, 41) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful files from the mount: # mount -t usbfs /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive/ # find /media/usbdrive/ /media/usbdrive/ /media/usbdrive/005 /media/usbdrive/005/002 /media/usbdrive/005/001 /media/usbdrive/004 /media/usbdrive/004/001 /media/usbdrive/003 /media/usbdrive/003/001 /media/usbdrive/002 /media/usbdrive/002/001 /media/usbdrive/001 /media/usbdrive/001/001 /media/usbdrive/devices It should contain several M$ word and powerpoint files. Moreover, how to mount the "Novell Netware 386" partition? type auto won't work, usbfs works, but I get exactly the same file list with above: umount /media/usbdrive/ mount -t usbfs /dev/sdb2 /media/usbdrive/ $ find /media/usbdrive/ /media/usbdrive/ /media/usbdrive/005 /media/usbdrive/005/002 /media/usbdrive/005/001 /media/usbdrive/004 /media/usbdrive/004/001 /media/usbdrive/003 /media/usbdrive/003/001 /media/usbdrive/002 /media/usbdrive/002/001 /media/usbdrive/001 /media/usbdrive/001/001 /media/usbdrive/devices What should I do to copy files from my friend's USB Drive? (I don't know how he created it, but it can be accessed ok in WinXP). thanks T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]