mkfs

Sun Aug 4 14:52:18 MST 2013

that goes back to the original question.... does it really matter if there
is a partition or not?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I can't see whmattery you would have any problems as long as there's
> only one partition on the device and it's fat32 or ntfs.
>
>  On 08/04/2013 01:54 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>> http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-format-usb-drive-in-the-terminal/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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