Fritz Whittington wrote:
On or about 2004-01-01 00:35, Margo whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and
scribbled:
Hi
Background:
When I first installed Fedora I plugged in my flash disk and nothing
happened. I worked on this for 3 days and then finally realised that
the usb ports weren't working at all. I have since changed the MB and
they work.
So. Flash disk no 1 now works.
Unfortunately Flash disk No 2 got formatted as fat32 to see if that
would make it work before I found out the usb ports weren't working.
When I plug it in n ow, it's picked up as a flash disk (good) however
the filesystem comes up as unknown or not recognised.
I have searched everywhere to find out the command to reformat the
disk as vfat in linux... perhaps its too basic a command to be in any
faq. Can anyone help.
At the command line, type "man mkfs".
You probably want to issue: "mkfs -t msdos /dev/whatever
I'm not sure, but I think FAT32 (-t vfat) isn't supported for flash
drives....How did you manage to get it formatted that way in the first
place?
I formatted the flash disk in WinXP :( at the time I didn't know the MB
usb ports on the text computer were stuffed. I tried reformatting using
the flash disk utility so the disk is now fat16 in hwbrowser but fedora
still gives me the same message.
I tried the mkfs command and got bash: command not found
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Margo
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