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Frank

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Re: Command to update /mnt for USB drives inserted?
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2010, 05:39:09 PM »
Does that make it any better?

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Re: Command to update /mnt for USB drives inserted?
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2010, 06:19:24 PM »
No, that's not my point. But that may give a more realistic perspective wrt expectations.
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Re: Command to update /mnt for USB drives inserted?
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2010, 07:51:33 AM »
Personally, I would never trust a "factory formatted" device as you don't know where this device has been, Magnetic fields could have bad or weak sectors. Hidden partitions and exploits are also common on pendrives. Thereby upon performing a format one is warned about not having partitions and requires an additional flag to perform a format of an unpartitioned drive.

Notwithstanding I have gone ahead with supporting this request.
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