On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Looking at the tail end of dmesg moments after you've inserted a drive > is an easy way to see where the system finds it. And you don't need to > be the root user to read that info. Yeah I got it very easily. > With fdisk, you have to be familiar with all your drives on the system, > so you can tell apart the newly inserted one from the others. That's > probably not too hard to do with a single USB flash drive, but gets > complex with multiple drives. Yes. >> ii) After that, I have to unmount it, using the command "umount >> /dev/sdb" so that it could be formatted. > Is that a question? In fact it was a statement I was confused at and was confirming that I have to do it because it is a must to unmount the pen-drive before formatting, but I only didn't put a question mark at the end. > vfat if you want to easily use the device on different computer systems, > including different Linux systems where your (numerical) user ID isn't > always the same on each system. > ext3 if you want to keep the different permissions and ownerships per > user, only intend to use it on Linux systems, or Windows systems where > you've installed extra drivers to handle ext3. Now really, I know the basic difference. So I must use "vfat". >> iv) I guess it would be correct: >> $ umount /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME >> $ /sbin/mkdosfs -F 32 -n usbdisk /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME >> Where, USBPARTITIONNAME is what I would be getting from query i) > Looks right. But don't take my word for it, read: man mkdosfs Sure, but I got these links from the page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#How_to_Format -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- 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
