From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Ionescu Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:16:14 +0000 Subject: Re: some flash sticks like my apacer have sda1-4 and sda4 is the Message-Id: <1074521774.6140.29.camel@t40> List-Id: References: <1074517235.8052.3.camel@C38296EE.kabel.telenet.be> In-Reply-To: <1074517235.8052.3.camel@C38296EE.kabel.telenet.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:00, Kristof vansant wrote: > I was wondering why this is It is probably garbage in the partition table that looks like a partition entry to the kernel. I have an even worse stick. It has no partition at all (sda is mountable like in case of usb floppy), but the kernel detects sda1-sda4 as well because of some data on the stick that to the kernel looks like valid partition entry. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel