[mdlug] Multiple partitions in usbdisk[was]mpeg files from MythTV play w/o audio in PS3

[Robert Meier]

Stan,

> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1

> But I still see this usbdisk showing up as two drives (two icons on KDE
> desktop). What exactly is in this drive which is causing this?

What do you see when you try the following?

bash> for p in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do df /dev/sdb$p; done

If the drive has more than one accessible partition,
you will see more than one Used/Available report among numbers 1-4
(depending on your bios).



Since it is KDE, you should find two files ~/Desktop/*.desktop that
correspond to the two icons.
What are the contents of these files (excluding Name and Comment)?
  (Replace sdb? with the names you find on your host.)
  bash> grep -v Name ~/Desktop/sdb?.desktop | grep -v Comment

Are they two pointers to the same partition rather than pointers to
two different partitions?

Such can result from overzealous automounters.




You may want to use

bash> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb0

Unlike the hd driver, which refers to the whole drive by dropping the numeric
suffix, the sd driver uses suffix-0 to refer to the whole drive.
See sd(4) and hd(4) for details.

Hopefully helpful,
-- 
Bob

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