Re: UDF failure on 1TB removable media, USB panic, and more

[Jasper Wallace <jasper%pointless.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > > Partition table:
> > > 0: NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX2 or Advanced UNIX (sysid 7)
> > >     start 2048, size 1953456128 (953836 MB, Cyls 0/32/33-121597/37/40)
> > > 
> > [...]
> > > I was not able to mount it. It always said:
> > > mount_udf: Cannot mount /dev/rsd0d on /mnt: Operation not supported by 
> > > device
> > 
> > did you try using fdisk to change the partition type? It's possible that
> > mount_udf is refusing to mount a partition with the ntfs type.
> 
> 
> 
> What partition type to try? I looked at bootblock.h but didn't see what 
> to use.

err, good point, i dont know.

looking in udf_vfsops.c it does check for a block device and refuse to 
mount it if it dosn't have one (i.e. use /dev/sd0d without the 'r').

> Also it was reset (after I did the newfs_udf and even newfs_ext2fs):
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: <UNUSED>


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