Fdisk and mount disagree?

[David G. Miller]

Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
> [snip]
> Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1       12161    97683201    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> $ mount
> [snip]
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jmccarty)
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686 
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> (yes, I know FC2 is unsupported)
>
> Mike
I wonder if it's a quirk of FC2.  I tried the same exercise with FC6 
(used a 1GB USB flash drive instead of the 100GB drive you used).  Both 
fdisk and mount agreed that my flash drive was partition type 0e (16 bit 
vfat).  Any chance you could try the same exercise on a more recent 
vintage of FC?  It also might be interesting to see what's actually in 
/etc/mtab.

Cheers,
Dave
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