mkfs

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

kitepilot at 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 at 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 at 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 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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