Oh yea..... I don't "plan" on using this in windows but just in case I need to pull a file off of my dad's computer.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

kitepilot@twinbeech[~]$ man mkfs|grep fat
fs(5), badblocks(8), fsck(8), mkdosfs(8), mke2fs(8), mkfs.bfs(8), mkfs.ext2(8), mkfs.ext3(8), mkfs.ext4(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.msdos(8), mkfs.vfat(8), mkfs.xfs(8), mkfs.xiafs(8)

kitepilot@twinbeech[~]$ man 8 mkfs.vfat

Michael Havens writes:

what is the option in mkfs? I looked at man but they don't list it. Is it
'-t fat32'?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:52 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

THen you are good... :)
Create a partition and install a FAT-32 filesystem if you plan on pluging
that thing to Wincrap.
ET
Michael Havens writes:

dmesg says the drive is sdc. I can then mount the drive and look at it's
contents.
now for your directions:
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ lsusb > /tmp/junk-lsusb-0.txt
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ cat /proc/partitions >
/tmp/junk-partitions-0.txt
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ lsusb > /tmp/junk-lsusb-1.txt
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ cat /proc/partitions >
/tmp/junk-partitions-1.txt
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ diff /tmp/junk-lsusb-?.txt
0a1

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0930:6544 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0

Stick (2GB)
All is good.
I can tell you right now that there are no partitions on this drive. It is
dev/sdc. I kinow this is the case because I can mount /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc
and
look at the contents. There is nothing in it that I want to keep.
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:12 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

First question to answer is: Is the drive being detected?
Unplug the drive, wait a minute and do:
lsusb > /tmp/junk-lsusb-0.txt
cat /proc/partitions > /tmp/junk-partitions-0.txt
Now plug the drive, wait a minute and do:
lsusb > /tmp/junk-lsusb-1.txt
cat /proc/partitions > /tmp/junk-partitions-1.txt
Then
diff /tmp/junk-lsusb-?.txt
If you see at leas one line you are good, otherwise you are dead in the
water.
If you can see the device, then:
diff /tmp/junk-partitions-?.txt
That's your partition.
Depending on what you have (if you have) next steps are different.
YMMV...
ET
Michael Havens writes:

Okay, when I was making a backup drive I did so on a drive that was too
small. (bummer) now, when I stick that device in nothing happens (the
nice
little file manager doesn't appear). So I think that is because I
created
a
label for this drive. So I wonder to myself how to fix it. What I think
of
is mkfs. What is a generic filesystem I can use on microsoft computers
too?
is xtfs the best or should I go with fat 16/32? or am I incorrect that
this
will fix the problem?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

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