How to use flash drive ?

[Robert Nichols]

Richard England wrote:
> Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
...
>> Disk /dev/sdc1: 4127 MB, 4127178752 bytes
>> 127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes
>>
>> This doesn't look like a partition table
>> Probably you selected the wrong device.
...
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb1
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb1: 1031 MB, 1031782400 bytes
> 32 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1984 * 512 = 1015808 bytes
> 
> This doesn't look like a partition table
> Probably you selected the wrong device.

The suggestion, "Probably you selected the wrong device" applies to
both of you.  Running fdisk on a _partition_ (sdb1, sdc1) is almost
always wrong.  The partition table is on the _device_ (sdb, sdc),
not within a partition.

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