Who mentioned data loss? Formatting in Windows reduces the risk of
Windows complaining about the format. It may not be standards-compliant,
but at least is is consistently broken.
Sorry I'm a bit late on this, but just a note, in fstab, you should
use the option iocharset=utf8, otherwise it's
On Friday 09 October 2009, Stroller wrote:
On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create
proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers.
(in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:49 +0100, Mick wrote:
Some USB sticks are formatted as floppy disks (?) and show up
as /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sda1). I have had no problems mounting
these in Linux or MSWindows, but wouldn't know how to format them in
Linux.
mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdX
Their
Stroller schrieb:
On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:22, KH wrote:
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as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as swap
(is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little ram on
the old vaio I used.)
There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
Anyway later
2009/10/9 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:49 +0100, Mick wrote:
Some USB sticks are formatted as floppy disks (?) and show up
as /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sda1). I have had no problems mounting
these in Linux or MSWindows, but wouldn't know how to format them in
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Daniel Quinn wrote:
On October 7, 2009 10:30:23 pm Mick wrote:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick?
The thing about USB sticks is that if you want to use them to transfer
files cross-platform (Windows Mac as well as Linux) you have to use a
common
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:31:50 +0100, Mick wrote:
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
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The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Try it in Linux first and let us know how it goes. I never
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:34:39 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Who
daid kahl schrieb:
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Try it in Linux first and let us know how it
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
It may not be standards-compliant, but at least is is consistently broken.
In some way this is funny and makes me smile.
kh
Daniel Quinn schrieb:
Then when you're back at the prompt, run:
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
...if sda is in fact your key. You can even add -L LabelName to attach a
label to the stick:
# mkfs.vfat -L USB Stick /dev/sda1
Hi,
from man mkfs.vfat:
-n volume-name: Sets the volume name (label)
On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:22, KH wrote:
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as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as
swap (is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little
ram on the old vaio I used.)
There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
Anyway later I wanted to use
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no
avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device
itself, nor with a partition
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no
avail - Windows wouldn't
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
I remember from SD cards that formatting them
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
What's the best way to reformat a USB
On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create
proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers.
(in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1)
Uh, unless SD cards are seriously
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
fdisk:
===
Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x91f72d24
Device
Mick wrote:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
fdisk:
===
Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier:
On October 7, 2009 10:30:23 pm Mick wrote:
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick?
The thing about USB sticks is that if you want to use them to transfer files
cross-platform (Windows Mac as well as Linux) you have to use a common
filesystem. Typically, I use FAT32 for this since I
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