Bob Goodwin wrote: > mkfs.msdos -n fd3 /dev/sdc1 seems to have done it! good to know if i need to label a fat format. <snip> > Before doing that it would no longer mount, once I ran mkfs it mounted when > plugged in. did you run "mkfs -t fat" or are you meaning when you ran "mkfs.msdos"? > Fdisk said it was still formatted FAT32 so I haven't changed that yet. I > guess the next thing will be to make certain I can still write to it as it > is. fdisk should know. and if you can not write to it, at least you will know what to do. btw, 'man mkfs.msdos' and 'man mkfs.vfat', both bring up 'mkdosfs', so i would guess prog is actually 'mkdosfs'. > As for "leading me into problems," not to worry, I am quite able to find > them without your help! thanks for that. :) i am having a bit of fun myself with getting f12 fully up and working where i feel secure in using it. hopefully in another week [or 2] i will have it all working as well as i had fc8 and f11. > And as you say it's been an interesting exercise. live and learn. die and forget. > Thanks for the help. my pleasure. much luck to you. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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