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 1MwAZr-00047R-1s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:11:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D821E07FA; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320A4E07FA for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4FDA36E3E9 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:11:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:11:43 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick Message-ID: <20091009091143.1ea47226@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200910090757.01760.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200910072330.36480.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <58965d8a0910081410h7bea965bj90c60ea82407bfe7@mail.gmail.com> <10F23866-6927-40E3-9A3E-C425CA2A3205@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200910090757.01760.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs46 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/2mVWMY4lZqNs6tB/PvO8b60"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 37858f10-299f-4a2b-9ff6-2b618c2fd0f2 X-Archives-Hash: 046585633c39708b2a5efcf18d5b7752 --Sig_/2mVWMY4lZqNs6tB/PvO8b60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:49 +0100, Mick wrote: > Some USB sticks are formatted as floppy disks (?) and show up > as /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sda1). I have had no problems mounting > these in Linux or MSWindows, but wouldn't know how to format them in > Linux. mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdX > Their partitions look all over the shop.=20 > # fdisk -l /dev/sda >=20 > Disk /dev/sda: 1022 MB, 1022623744 bytes > 32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders > Units =3D cylinders of 1952 * 512 =3D 999424 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x69737369 >=20 > This doesn't look like a partition table That's because there are no partitions and no partition table, the filesystem filled the unpartitioned disk. The Sony E-Reader uses this method for its internal flash storage and KDE has no problems automounting it. --=20 Neil Bothwick OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too --Sig_/2mVWMY4lZqNs6tB/PvO8b60 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkrO8EQACgkQum4al0N1GQOz6wCeMFIv59XRe0IIVyA5kFnKcySy 6n4AmJ+8nWjfOpk2npVXomdXtNm/lQI= =c9br -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2mVWMY4lZqNs6tB/PvO8b60--