mkfs

[Michael Havens]

 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 at 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 at 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 at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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