Curious Thumbdrive

Thu Oct 8 08:05:04 UTC 2009

Got a thumbdrive at a conference with the conference proceedings on it.  While both linux and windows mount the device as a FAT filesystem and access the files, fdisk doesn't show me the expected structure.  Anyone know what is changing?
	[root at mcbr ~]# fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 1043 MB, 1043857408 bytes 33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1012 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes Disk identifier: 0x73696420 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device.    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdc1   ?      953776     1224237   272218546+  20  Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):      phys=(356, 97, 46) logical=(953775, 30, 54) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:      phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(1224236, 16, 7) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc2   ?      660797      928545   269488144   6b  Unknown Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):      phys=(288, 110, 57) logical=(660796, 30, 25) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:      phys=(269, 101, 57) logical=(928544, 23, 15) Partition 2 does!
  not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc3   ?      267755      962421   699181456   53  OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):      phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(267754, 9, 41) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:      phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(962420, 13, 50) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc4   *      692811      692822       10668+  49  Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):      phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(692810, 18, 36) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:      phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(692821, 5, 22) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order

Robert McBroom


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