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Re: usb-pen directory is corrupted



On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:33:55 +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse
<paul@dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0100, roberto wrote:
> > Please, my usb pen seems to be corrupted, i cannot get out of this:
> 
> > any hints to solve this problem?
> 
> It's probably best to reformat it - the usb stick probably came with
> some sort of software that should do that for you (though most likely
> under Windows).
> 
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1 will probably work, unless you've managed to
> corrupt the device's partition table (unmount it first, though).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
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or else try mounting the pen drive at /dev/sda and fstype=usbfs
instead of /dev/sda1 and fstype=vfat. this worked for me on FC3 and
slackware 10. as for debian, i'm very much new and not sure if it will
work.

cheers



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