mkfs

Sun Aug 4 13:54:18 MST 2013

I was just about to create a partition on the device when a thought
occurred to me: If I add a partition to this drive will that make any
windows machine I were to add this to not want to access it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whether you do it in a terminal or with a GUI, this article is a wealth of
> information about this:
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> http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-format-usb-drive-in-the-terminal/
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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