[arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up as USBDRIVE on my system. I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as ocz_usb? I do not appear to have the tools installed on my Arch

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Aljosha Papsch
16.06.2010 20:11, Carlos Mennens wrote: I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up as USBDRIVE on my system. I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as ocz_usb? I do not

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb -- Guilherme M. Nogueira Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira: With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb Then (for mlabel) you'll need mtools, too. The label can be passed as an option to

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira: With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format: fdisk /dev/sdb mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 and then to name the partition: mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb Then (for

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a partition (like sdd1), only on the whole device e.g. /dev/sdd [r...@tuna

Re: [arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

2010-06-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 June 2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian ingeniw...@gmail.com wrote: Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a