Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

David S <dalidan@bigpond.net.au>:
>  Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >keeling@nucleus.com:
> >>
> >> Amazing as in, XP can't.  This seems a fairly insane design decision on
> >> the part of MS.
> >
> > Does Vista do this, too?
> 
>  Yup.

Stunning.

   "We are helping.  We are helping."
                    -- Mainframe
df:
/dev/sda1             298M     0  298M   0% /media/usbdisk-1
/dev/sda5             282M  2.1M  265M   1% /media/usbdisk-2
/dev/sda6             769M  697M   73M  91% /media/usbdisk-3
/dev/sda7             2.5G  3.8M  2.4G   1% /media/usbdisk-4

fdisk -l:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          38      305203+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2              39         498     3694950    5  Extended
/dev/sda5              39          75      297171   83  Linux
/dev/sda6              76         173      787153+   6  FAT16
/dev/sda7             174         498     2610531   83  Linux

Corp. laptop sees sda1, only.  The other three are not only
inaccessible, they're invisible (WinXP on Dell Latitude D620).

Microsoft:  "Partitions?!?  Isn't that how all those fsckin' Linux
             users are getting it installed on our boxes?  Well, let's
             just forget about partitions then."

You go, girl.  What a bunch of pathetic wimps that outfit is.


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