Re: memory stick

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Subject: Re: memory stick
From: Steffen Waldherr <steffen.waldherr@web.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:40:06 +0200
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Hi,

> critter:~# mkfs vfat /dev/sda1
> mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
> mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/sda1

the correct format to call mkfs is
mkfs -t <filesys> <device>
You were trying to create an ext2 file system, which
is the default if no type is specified.

Check man mkfs for more options. Due to the error
messages you had experienced with this stick before,
I guess there are a couple of bad blocks which could
be found using the option -c and excluded for
formatting.

Steffen

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