-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:01:57PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:31:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Tomas has tried to give me pointers on that but I'm afraid I don't > > > understand where to take that. Is there any chance someone who isn't a > > > self-proclaimed "desktop luddite" could comment? > > > > There *must* be some place in your shiny desktop environment "disks" > > or something like that where you configure media "known" to your > > desktop environment. > > > > Insert your "semi-correct" disk and try to enter the labyrinth > > through "properties". > > > > Don't forget Ariadne and the yarn, and give my greetings to the > > Minotaur ;-) > > > I honked my mouse up into the top left corner of the screen, as you do > in Gnome, and typed "disks" in the search box. And, to quote General > Melchett, "Well bugger me with a fishfork" if there wasn't an application > called Disks just waiting for me. > > (there was, so no need to... anyway) > > It reports that my correctly working disk has a partition type of 83 > (linux) while the partly-broken one reports a partition type of W95 > FAT32 (LBA) -- suggesting it really is in a bit of an old mess after my > half-assed initial format. I've seen enough -- I'll wipe and re-format > it, and have patience this time (doing that now).
Note that you can change the partition type with a partition editor. It's just the value of a specific byte in the partition table with no further effects whatsoever (excluding some gullible desktop environments, but those believe in file endings too, snark, snark ;) So no need to reformat (not telling you what to do, but if you're still in investigative mood, this would be a candidate). Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAljZIiUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ30wCfZPljNBzi3J4C/X/IkdB5QoIy LNAAn1RJwDfpM1f1/zVb/ESwtfLe1VSn =raQP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
