From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mvf20-0001J2-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:30:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9804E0918; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBE5E0918 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so950910eye.40 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:30:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=7uhw0ciuvShk5zC9p3ORoz69dOZj1htZ4RHrcyYpa/c=; b=bYo+Uaov72hdCjdK49JGyIcEnjJSjJrKg87e8ewQU0Ocob6XHn5bQUc76iPndqqsP6 wdyiM+QHCFfyHShyOKrdHx6V0q4mqX18FC/RXSRz+vOxrDKbXlW87QSoJI5e1KpfDugZ Ko18hGbPvShedBICg7QW4I58CCKMerAFjZb9M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=daJbauy7dimmo0OkRh2xNr59uQ8cReJcSO/EKAAH2WnyKlw13aMg51T9o92ZhDsAKc b0pk4C0j8zilTZZgo6KZoYPmWdvEe2HwrSaC1Iia+KIGjEQv/hO0/kiONwn7rj0pobCB NbIKfVM0u3rpYOj/eIPoUTVJ4fOsZwJ+GZCho= Received: by 10.210.93.4 with SMTP id q4mr1473033ebb.3.1254954645747; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm25368eyg.20.2009.10.07.15.30.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:30:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:30:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1897823.r9YshaUYfL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910072330.36480.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 155b3ed6-4769-4d41-9264-cc7cd763675e X-Archives-Hash: c41efa7ebb44ac89e384266982b582a0 --nextPart1897823.r9YshaUYfL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in=20 fdisk: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x91f72d24 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 123 987104 6 FAT16 Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=3D(121, 254, 63) logical=3D(122, 227, 40) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Not sure I understand the "physical/logical endings" comment that fdisk thr= ows=20 at me. This is what sfdisk shows: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # sfdisk /dev/sda Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK Disk /dev/sda: 1011 cylinders, 32 heads, 61 sectors/track Old situation: Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=3D*/255/63 (instead of 1011/32/61). =46or this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units =3D cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 122- 123- 987104 6 FAT16 end: (c,h,s) expected (122,227,40) found (121,254,63) /dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Grateful for any attempt to educate me on this! :-) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1897823.r9YshaUYfL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkrNFowACgkQVTDTR3kpaLanLACgvxnBak9h5oaBafGTT8kiSAng NmoAnjZKfj8rLK04/Rls4ZrqDjDNHafy =eftZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1897823.r9YshaUYfL--