On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:28 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > > On 08/18/2010 08:57 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 33.5 GB, 33554432000 bytes > > > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 32000 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > > > Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > > > > I don't but I guess the drive is having a small sector corrupted > > > inside it as the icon is getting displayed but other actions have been > > > restricted unknowingly! > > Of hand, it looks like you did something like "mke2fs /dev/sdb". > > While this is valid, it creates a drive without a partition table. > > This causes problems for the auto-mount software. > > > > While you could manually mount a drive set up this way, you are > > better using parted to create a partition table, a partition that > > spans the entire drive, and formatting it. You will probably find > > that one of the GUIs for parted is easier to use. You may have > > gparted or qtparted installed. > > > > Mikkel > > I find pen drives work much better if they a re partitioned as windows > devices, even on fedora. It's also a practical necessity when you're interested in portability. I copy lots of large video files to my 8GB Kingston because I can just plug it into my DVD player -- which only groks VFAT -- and watch them on by plasma TV (some day I hope to spring for one of those network media switch boxes and save myself the hassle :-). However I do see an occasional problem: after a week or two of heavy use you can suddenly find that copying a file will just sit there for many hours with the pendrive light blinking (iotop shows it copying a few bytes at a time, or none). The only fix is to completely reformat the drive. I don't know if this is a problem with the flash memory's peculiar mode of operation, with the Kingston model in particular, or with VFAT fragmentation, but it's a pain when it happens. IOW, be very careful using these things for important data, and always keep a backup on your HD. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
