mkfs

Sun Aug 4 10:34:32 MST 2013

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 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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