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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:51:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0910090551o164cae79m51c56482746d11f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091009091143.1ea47226@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

2009/10/9 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> 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

Aha!  The 'superfloppy' format!  I didn't know this.

Thanks.  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick



      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-09 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 22:30 [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick Mick
2009-10-07 22:55 ` dhk
2009-10-07 23:40 ` Daniel Quinn
2009-10-08  6:31   ` Mick
2009-10-08  8:41     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 10:34       ` daid kahl
2009-10-08 11:16         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 11:25           ` KH
2009-10-14 12:12           ` daid kahl
2009-10-08 11:22         ` KH
2009-10-08 14:10           ` Stroller
2009-10-09  9:17             ` KH
2009-10-08 12:14   ` KH
2009-10-08 20:25 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-10-08 21:10   ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-08 21:23     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-08 22:14       ` Mick
2009-10-08 22:22       ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-08 23:14     ` Stroller
2009-10-09  6:56       ` Mick
2009-10-09  8:11         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-09 12:51           ` Mick [this message]

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