[PLUG] Mounting the G1 Android under Linux, and a weird partition table.

Tim tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org
Thu Oct 23 22:49:51 UTC 2008


> Try mounting /dev/sda directly. There's really no reason to have a partition 
> table, that's just "how it always was" so when you buy a flash device these 
> days they tend to have one large partition.
> 
> The output from fdisk looks like it's reading some filesystem blocks and 
> thinking it's getting a partition table.

Yes that could be.  To get more information about the
partition/filesystem you can try:

  file -s /dev/sda

Install The SleuthKit (apt-get install sleuthkit) and run:

  mmls /dev/sda


HTH,
tim



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