AW: [Oberon] partitioning USB storage

[Stauber Sven Philipp]

Hi Peter,
 
Thanks for the report.
 
>"Device is not partitioned" was certainly false.
>Files had been stored on and retrieved from the
>Aos part.
Which Bluebottle release did you use? I've found the entry "AosPartitiosLib.Mod - fixed DeletePartition and CreatePartition" in the change log (24.01.2006). As far as I can remember, there was a bug that caused the "Device is not partitioned" message although the device was partitioned.

>Under "Erros" [sic] was reported "1".
This typo has been fixed in one of the last releases.
 
>From this I speculate that the partition table
>has provision for locks, that Debian fdisk
>closes the locks by default and that the Aos
>Partitioner declines to delete a locked
>partition.  
There are no locks at the level of the partition table. This is likely the bug mentioned above. If not, it's another bug (let me know, please). To find out, whether it's a bug in the Partition Tool or not, I suggest using the command Partitions.Delete under Oberon or to boot from a BB release > 24.01.2006 and use a more recent Partition Tool. That really should work.
 
Cheers,
Sven
 
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Gesendet: Mi 29.03.2006 02:06
An: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
Betreff: [Oberon] partitioning USB storage



Hello Sven,

You asked for reports on experience with USB.

I have a USB storage which was partitioned
into two parts by fdisk in Debian Linux.
The first part was FAT, the second was Aos.

Using what is now the current Aos Partitioner
I tried to delete the second part.  The
partitioner failed and left this message.

Operation UID 0: Device is not partitioned.

Under "Erros" [sic] was reported "1".

"Device is not partitioned" was certainly false.
Files had been stored on and retrieved from the
Aos part.

Saturday, I plugged the stick into a Mac and
opened the disk utility.  Interestingly, each
part had a small lock icon.  I set the flag
labelled "allow edit" or such.  After
repartitioning, the locks were open.

>From this I speculate that the partition table
has provision for locks, that Debian fdisk
closes the locks by default and that the Aos
Partitioner declines to delete a locked
partition.  Apologies for not verifying this
in the USB/ATA specs and the code.

As soon as I have Aos working again, will see
how it recognizes the new partition table.

Thanks,          ... Peter E.

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