Christopher Sawtell wrote:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:54, Steve Holdoway wrote:


mount -t vfat /dev/usb/disgo /mnt



I used my pendrive to take some files to another machine and when I got home again I discovered to my horror that the other machine had altered the filesystem to a msdos one of some kind, and implanted a whole lot small data files on to my pendrive.


To my annoyance I now cannot mount the pendrive as a vfat partition inspite of repartitioning it with a partition type of 0x0b and making a file-system with the mkdosfs utility.

Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem on the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will cope with long filenames and be portable across Linux, Win, and MacOS )



Make it a single linux partition ( 0x83 ), then mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 ( or whatever ).

Should work.

Steve

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