On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> I want to restore the vfat/32 file system to a 1G USB flash drive on > which > I had put memtest86. Repartitioning with fdisk works, but there is no > mkfs.vfat on my system. The mkfs man page includes mkfs.vfat (8) in the > 'see > also' section, but there is no man page in section 8 for that flavor. > > Any ideas? Can this be saved or do I toss it and buy another one? > > Rich > Do you need Windows compatibility on the flash drive? If not, just restore the files from the VFAT partition onto an EXT partition. If yes, format the flash drive on the Windows machine, then restore the files on your linux system. As for how to get mkfs.vfat - google tells me this is also known as "mkdosfs" which is part of the "dosfstools" package, at least on Debian. YMMV. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
