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 Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 123 987104 6 FAT16
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(121, 254, 63) logical=(122, 227, 40)
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Not sure I understand the "physical/logical endings" comment that fdisk throws
at me.
This is what sfdisk shows:
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# sfdisk /dev/sda
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK
Disk /dev/sda: 1011 cylinders, 32 heads, 61 sectors/track
Old situation:
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 1011/32/61).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 122- 123- 987104 6 FAT16
end: (c,h,s) expected (122,227,40) found (121,254,63)
/dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value.
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Grateful for any attempt to educate me on this! :-)
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Regards,
Mick
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