Pen drive not detected in 2.6.1

[Onyarian]

In all other releases mi 8Gb pen drive is detected as /dev/sdb and mounted in /mnt/sdb.

In this release 2.6.1 this pen drive is not detected, so I can't mount it. Other pens, per example, detected as /dev/sdc1 are mounted in /mnt/sdc1, but this sdb no, so finally I have to turn back to 2.6 version.

Is perhaps the updated rebuildfstab of 2.6.1?

[roberts]

What does fdisk -l show ?
What filesystem is on the pendrive that does not use a partition?
Be sure to test 2.7rc1 when it appears.

[Onyarian]

The pendrive is a LaCie 8Gb original formated with vfat.

The results with tc 2.6:
in fstab

/dev/sdb        /mnt/sdb        vfat     noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0 # Added by TC
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in fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes
249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1   ?      125407      245362   925929529+ 68 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(125406, 168, 29)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(245361, 67, 59)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb2   ?       86163      121076   269488144  79 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(86162, 245, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(121075, 74, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb3   ?       34914      125493   699181456  53 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(34913, 40, 18)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(125492, 109, 49)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb4   ?       90338       90339       10668+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(90337, 81, 36)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(90338, 176, 44)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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and with tc 2.6.1:

No entry in fstab
--
in fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes
249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdb1   ?      125407      245362   925929529+ 68 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(125406, 168, 29)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(245361, 67, 59)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb2   ?       86163      121076   269488144  79 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(86162, 245, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(121075, 74, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb3   ?       34914      125493   699181456  53 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(34913, 40, 18)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(125492, 109, 49)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdb4   ?       90338       90339       10668+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(90337, 81, 36)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(90338, 176, 44)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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perhaps, as a solution,  it has to be newly formated, but it can happen with others too, and in the previous releases is well detected.

I will wait to test it with 2.7rc1.

[roberts]

Therein lies the problem, you do have psrtitions on the drive, but no filesystem can be detected in any of those partitions.

[ophiry]

I have a similar problem - a usb device with no partitions.
mounting /dev/sda manually does work.


I guess the problem is in the device - but other systems (windows and linux) detect it.

Is there a way to modify rebuildfstab to detect such devices?

Ophir

[gerald_clark]

Unless you are running 2.6.1, you should start a new thread.
If you are running 2.6.1, you should update to 2.11.

[^thehatsrule^]

Since 2.6.1, it relies on `fdisk -l` which requires partitions.