mkfs

Sun Aug 4 11:25:45 MST 2013

why does it matter? it is only 2 gig.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, <kitepilot at 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 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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