Re: Flash drive fstype reported as 4.2BSD instead of MSDOS

[Brad du Plessis <bradd%cat.co.za@localhost>]

Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:59:36PM +0200, Brad du Plessis wrote:
>   
> > Daniel Horecki wrote:
> >     
> > > Try first with -w, if that will work, try -w -r then.
> > >       
> > Thanks for your reply. Are the results below expected?
> >
> > Tried -w:
> >
> > # mbrlabel -w sd0
> > Found unknown partition; size 168689522 (82367 MB), offset 1869771365
> >  adding unknown partition to slot b.
> > Found unknown partition; size 1869881465 (913028 MB), offset 1701519481
> >  adding unknown partition to slot c.
> > Found unknown partition; size 0 (0 MB), offset 2573
> >  adding unknown partition to slot e.
> >
> > 5 partitions:
> > #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> > a:   4029440         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0 -  15739)
> > b: 168689522 1869771365    unknown                    # (Cyl. 7303794+-  
> > 7962737+)
> > c: 1869881465 1701519481    unknown                    # (Cyl. 6646560+-  
> > 13950784+)
> > d:   4029440         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -   15739)
> >
> > Updating in-core disk label.
> >     
>
> I wonder if this is a partitionless "superfloppy", with the filesystem
> starting at the beginning of the device.  what does
>
>         file /dev/rsd0d
>   


# file /dev/rsd0d
/dev/rsd0d: character special (13/2)

> return?  are you able to mount with "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0d /mnt"?
>   

Yes, it mounts fine when forcing it to msdos.


Brad