that, therefore begs the question: why did this drive not come with a partition? It is a PNY drive.........and from my investigations it seems it is supposed to have a partition. So I guess I will partition it......  How strange! gparted seems to automatically say it is partitioned.... until I refresh it and everything becomes unallocated. So then I create a fat32 filesystem over the entire device and it gave me an error. Now gparted says it is an unknown file system. And so now I mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sdc again and I will leave it as it is. It didn't hurt me before so I will hope it doesn't hurt me now.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
I'd think about it the other way around.
I have *ALWAYS* seen a parti a partitionis drive nottion.
Not having one makes me nervous...
Just my opinion.
ET


Michael Havens writes:
I was just about to create a partition on the device when a thought
occurred to me: If I add a partition to this drive will that make any
windows machine I were to add this to not want to access it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
Whether you do it in a terminal or with a GUI, this article is a wealth of
information about this:
http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-format-usb-drive-in-the-terminal/



On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
why does it matter? it is only 2 gig.
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
If I was you, I'd make a partition.
Scary...
ET

Michael Havens writes:
 sudo mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sdc did it. Thanks Enrique! Now I get the
nice
file manager appearing and everything.... How cool. I had to use -I
because
there are no partitions on the drive.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
wrote:
it appears that msdos and vfat just point to each other (man mkfs.vfat
is
the man for mkfs.msdos). Is this correct? So then it doesn't matter if
I do
"-t vfat" or "-t msdos". What about "xtfs"?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:25 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
RTFM!   ;-)
ET
Michael Havens writes:
 So what is the option, "-t vfat" or "-t msdos"? I thought "xfs" was
an
option.
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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