Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-09 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, August 09, 2015 9:31:37 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez [15-08-08 05:42]: > > On Friday, August 07, 2015 7:01:29 PM Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-09 Thread Meino . Cramer
Fernando Rodriguez [15-08-08 05:42]: > On Friday, August 07, 2015 7:01:29 PM Mick wrote: > > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 form

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-08 Thread Meino . Cramer
Fernando Rodriguez [15-08-08 05:43]: > On Friday, August 07, 2015 9:44:50 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Mick [15-08-07 20:04]: > > > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, August 07, 2015 9:44:50 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [15-08-07 20:04]: > > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, August 07, 2015 8:33:17 PM waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Mick wrote: > > > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I > > > > have. Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, August 07, 2015 6:58:47 PM waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been > > > > swallowed by /dev/nu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, August 07, 2015 7:01:29 PM Mick wrote: > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > > > formatting was already don

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Meino . Cramer
Mick [15-08-07 20:04]: > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > > > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I > > > have. Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was > > > automatically aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I have. > > Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was automatically > > aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to deal with 4KB > > sector driv

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > > Then I screwed it up and had to do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been > > > swallowed by /dev/null. > > > > I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been swallowed by > > /dev/null. > > I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some posts > in the last 2 or 3 days, but i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been swallowed by > /dev/null. I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some posts in the last 2 or 3 days, but it seems that everyone ignored them. I think the reason is that I'm not very popula

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > Then I screwed it up and had to do the partioning and formatting > myself again. "No big deal", I though

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > Then I screwed it up and had to do the partioning and formatting > myself again. "No big deal", I though

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I have. > Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was automatically > aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to deal with 4KB > sector drives. > > However, formatting it with mkfs.vfat I was none the wise

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread Mick
On Thursday 06 Aug 2015 21:17:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/08/2015 18:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > > Then I screwed it up and had to do the partioning and for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/08/2015 18:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The > formatting was already done by the manufacturer. > Then I screwed it up and had to do the partioning and formatting > myself again. "No big deal", I thought -- and was wrong.

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The formatting was already done by the manufacturer. Then I screwed it up and had to do the partioning and formatting myself again. "No big deal", I thought -- and was wrong. Yes, the "thing" I got could be read and written. But it wa