mkfs

[Michael Havens]

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