From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GHSVs-0003q9-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:49:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7RLlRW9028021; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:47:27 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7RLicxq018722 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:44:39 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so1638976pyd for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=googlemail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=muheUAUs/MOXR/rxzUUsgXhK2KssDnD8ryMr99MMRSCxxxNn3bEgv9GWlk6SmtT8k2rwSz367HnGIxxCydeFnOyPJd41G97+jZp+d+AVw9Sz75fILcGGtrqoJ7Nmrv86ZxO1PpX/FJvFC22S9QrZk/qYzqxViIGSri4/iJxHnJI= Received: by 10.65.122.20 with SMTP id z20mr6035825qbm; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?84.57.202.128? ( [84.57.202.128]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e17sm3863367qba.2006.08.27.14.44.36; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44F2123E.6060600@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:44:30 +0200 From: Daniel Pielmeier User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060801) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fstab devmode References: <1156704912.6541.9.camel@sysconcept.ca> <20060827205335.GA8819@princeton.edu> <1156713929.6541.15.camel@sysconcept.ca> In-Reply-To: <1156713929.6541.15.camel@sysconcept.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 489d0cc2-c3b4-4b89-9b6e-bbab34151873 X-Archives-Hash: c5a90a8b10b20d28084ef7242fe61f5f > It is a usb stick so it has a vfat file system. However, I've reformat > the stick with fdisk to ext2 filesystem. With vfat it has 978mb > capacity now after formating is to ext2 it has a 913mb capacity. > Is there a way to create dos (vfat) partition with Linux fdisk utility? As far as i know fdisk is just for partitioning, i think you can use mkfs.vfat from sys-fs/dosfstools for creating vfat file-system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list