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. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
