On 5/2/2025 4:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 3:34 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/2/25 4:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/2/25 9:44 AM, home user via users wrote:
On 5/1/25 9:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You can try running "gpart" on it. That will try to discover the
partitions.
# gpart /dev/sdb
Begin scan...
Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(14782mb), offset(3mb)
End scan.
Checking partitions...
Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): primary
Ok.
Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 012(0x0C)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA)
size: 14782mb #s(30274944) s(8064-30283007)
chs: (3/60/1)-(1023/63/32)d (3/60/1)-(14786/39/32)r
That looks correct. The stick likely came preformatted as FAT32.
Does "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" show any partitions?
If not, then run "gpart -W /dev/sdb /dev/sdb". This will write the
discovered partition table to the drive and you can try mounting it.
(inserted stick into left USB3 port)
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
#
(removed stick; inserted stick into right USB3 port)
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 14.44 GiB, 15504900096 bytes, 30283008 sectors
Disk model:
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5c3b37be
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 8064 30283007 30274944 14.4G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
#
The gnome file browser seems to not see the stick. By the way, I've
Does windows see it?
yes and no!
It knows I inserted the stick into the port.
It pops up the file explorer.
But it also pops up a little box that says "Please insert a disk into
USB Drive (F:).
If I "eject" the stick, remove it, and put it into the other port,
windows-10 pops up another little box saying "You need to format the
disk in drive F: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?".
The box has 2 buttons: "Format disk" and "Cancel".
I clicked "Cancel".
Then windows-10 popped up another window saying "F:\ is not accessible.
Please make sure that all required file systems drivers are loaded and
that the volume is not corrupted.".
By the way, I was able (with difficulty) to get a few files off the
stick earlier this week, so windows-10 was able to read the stick. But
then it insisted on me scanning it with defender, and I, not knowing
better, did so. I don't know how relevant that is.
never been able to figure out how to manually (from the command line)
mount something. File browsers do that for me nicely.
"sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"
Thank-you, Samuel.
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