[ale] quick USB storage device question

[Geoffrey]

Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> Actually, in the case of USB thumbdrives, you would normally mount /dev/sda 
> (No partition!). Mucking with Fstab on such a device is only asking for 
> trouble (I have corruped a 256mb SD card by not knowing what I was doing and 
> fstabing all over the place)

I find this quite surprising since my memory stick and jump drive are 
/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 respectively.  The memory stick slot is 
internal, whereas the jumpdrive plugs into usb.

Now I do have a usb floppy drive which is /dev/sdc.

All three show up as usb in lsusb.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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