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Re: Recover zonked USB sticks

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Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> wrote:
> Perhaps I should add that while a # df -k command tells me the device is
> /dev/sdb, the kernel can't see it ($ dmsg does not report it).

If "df -k" tells you that the device is /dev/sdb it means that you have
mounted the device, you would not have been able to mount it without the
kernel to see it.

When the device is mounted you should not try to alter the partition table
or the file system.
 
> The reason for my wish to recovery is that I want to try and zcat a
> custom boot.img to /dev/sdb again and have my supply of UBS sticks to
> dwindle.

If you once again want to put something to sdb like that there is no
reason to put a partition table on /dev/sdb first. However, you whould
first unmount the device before doing any such operation.

regards Henrik
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Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-05 11:37 -0500
  Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-12-05 12:24 -0500
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-06 13:03 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-12-06 16:01 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-12-06 23:13 +0100
        Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 10:42 -0500
  Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-12-06 19:29 +0000
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 10:39 -0500
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 12:13 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-12-07 17:25 +0000

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