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 1Mw0Fz-0004lt-HG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:10:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C84C5E0C43; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f228.google.com (mail-gx0-f228.google.com [209.85.217.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A608BE0C43 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so943584gxk.9 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:10:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=r4/OKI4E0jCTzHt+se7OMzjCOCp9HAx3sTrl0qbu82w=; b=N9F6vO6YnOTlmLvuYayHyF7JKwNvR6Ubnt1wl8l4DFvBm9+PCIl0S8VOJMjenqyAKl 9PRF7YATbdpcg/I6RXq28fWgDWTebraaKI5ZBvHFeHvaoEDbSbBJ/2NGM6qLnnSHw4mi VFOrsN/mBLHxNfrY/3G+tGBWNul24ZVNpBX60= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=twcDyk0CKv1SemNjsxKHICyRe3t72QU9xA5x9e66Xnsum57luc7k7FNKkGBsQ9yMB2 ZT8cmrYPj1V0PIbD8AMhduYzL9tt8kOvvn3K8KVxo0ut2BFBxycTLkXWrmmY1V9OKD7o k4qqfT97qxYXkoU1DdQ2wncXtXWp/n9bUR6Ic= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.251.28 with SMTP id y28mr3165916ybh.185.1255036210405; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:10:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910082225.31660.Warp_7@gmx.de> References: <200910072330.36480.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200910082225.31660.Warp_7@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:10:10 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b1f1eb68a887cfbc Message-ID: <58965d8a0910081410h7bea965bj90c60ea82407bfe7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0cbf6812-e722-449a-9cc8-86bf5efc76fe X-Archives-Hash: 4d48dda13daccce557076848ad06542d On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no > avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device > itself, nor with a partition for the fs. > So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1)