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 1MwEwg-0001dV-RM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:51:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3B74E06B4; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5AAE06B4 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so6555159fxm.14 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:51:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ljOjnLscEkNydyL6abRdBIiJyoFP49q29AM2GGC0hWs=; b=fARTRSgQAHWJ2PQ4/YNEUi/8656XiBdjcKdX6aDB79tNncmPVOP9b9H9DswiOitXE0 wBbVrWXqGVzUC0oHvIcpTPqdw7l+fKlKomfmAyDVfzoJ6cddwXrnt0SQH0AB3GhtC9PT 42aNMlG4/+iHOIABeXx8wHqKgxJOd2zVdDr5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ErRQ71AiIb+vusFTZFpDnmA72zoapnqN0dvR9Wbji4Igg3vAZpYMnJSA15496gg8oK BHbmhi+NkO1zSXSaYUyneOGfCNpj/7xljRoyCXJxQ5O8uH+G9yafADMA9ShJxYNQCq6k O3pu/Xj2egYfeaKJBV3Yg8b98AdTWczVSjjdo= 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 Received: by 10.204.29.22 with SMTP id o22mr2198567bkc.78.1255092700713; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:51:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091009091143.1ea47226@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <200910072330.36480.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <58965d8a0910081410h7bea965bj90c60ea82407bfe7@mail.gmail.com> <10F23866-6927-40E3-9A3E-C425CA2A3205@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200910090757.01760.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20091009091143.1ea47226@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:51:39 +0100 Message-ID: <358eca8f0910090551o164cae79m51c56482746d11f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 25dfac9b-d3a3-419e-890b-1c1db86f7d01 X-Archives-Hash: cbb906dab43810f41c46ac64e140133b 2009/10/9 Neil Bothwick : > 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). =A0I 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. :-) --=20 Regards, Mick