[27314] in Athena Bugs
Re: attach-usb uses wrong device name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Jun 12 14:09:16 2009
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
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This is maintained by Athena Consulting and is not part of the
release, so after this message, I'll drop bugs from the CC and add
consultdev.
Most flash drives do in fact have their only filesystem in /dev/sdb1.
attach-usb tries to be as clever as possible to deal with the myriad
flash drives out there and their unusual partitioning schemes. It
seems you have an unusual flash drive. Can you send us the make and
model of your flash drive, as well as the output of fdisk -l /dev/
sdb? Additionally, can you let us know whether the flash drive was
ever reformatted/repartitioned by you, or if it is using the vendor's
original format and partitioning scheme?
-Jon
On Jun 12, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Matthew Belmonte wrote:
> On w20-575-13.mit.edu, the script "/mit/consult/attach-usb" fails
> because it
> tries to use non-existent device /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb.
> Running
> "mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb" after the script fails does the right
> thing; all
> directories on the USB drive are visible.
>
> The need for a solution to this problem should be obviated by the
> release
> of Athena 10. Nevertheless, I thought it worth reporting in case
> similar
> questions arise in the interim.
>
> w20-575-13.mit.edu 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 07:10:44 EST
> 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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