Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I used `parted', and the pendrive filesystem seems to be 
>> recovered now.  I inserted the pendrive into the usb port, and:
>> 
>> # parted
>> 
>> [...]
>>
>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-241.500 megabytes
>> Disk label type: msdos
>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>> 1          0.016    241.250  primary   fat16       boot
>> (parted) rm 1
>> (parted) p
>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-241.500 megabytes
>> Disk label type: msdos
>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>> (parted) mkpartfs primary fat16 0.000 241.500
>> (parted) p
>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-241.500 megabytes
>> Disk label type: msdos
>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>> 1          0.031    235.327  primary   fat16



Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks fine to me, except that FAT32 would be more preferable than FAT16.
> I think that FAT16 is less efficient; there are probably other
> disadvantages too.


I used fat16 simply because `parted' detected a fat16 partition in the
pendrive, and I wanted to restore the previous pendrive status.

Thanks, cheers,
Rodolfo