ty wilsonb for responding to my post.
That is a solution that I had not tried yet.
And although the instructions at the link you provided are 'idiot
proof'... I have not had success yet.
I can not get the 2nd partition formatted, because it won't show up in
the list of devices with fdisk -l .
My usb drive is a Kingston 4gb... but my issues are noob fdisk partition
issues not related to this thread.
ty again. I will keep trying of course.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ubuntu# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 3997 MB, 3997695488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 486 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 487 3903968 b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(485, 254, 63) logical=(486, 6, 31)
yet within fdisk I see...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ubuntu# fdisk /dev/sdb1
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb1: 3997 MB, 3997663232 bytes
123 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7626 * 512 = 3904512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1p1 * 1 180 686309 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb1p2 181 1023 3214359 83 Linux
And.. if I format the 1st partition.. using mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n usb
/dev/sdb1... with no errors.
Then.. even the 1st partition disappears... according to fdisk.
Anyway, ty again. I either have a weird USB drive that wont cooperate,
or I am an idiot and need to do more studying up on fdisk.
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