thestar@fussycoder.id.au wrote:
The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table that contains a single partition, /dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - which does not use windows partition table formats (which linux does use), so you may need to use fdisk or cfdisk.
So I guess it would make it easier if I formatted it FAT32 before connecting it (it is indeed a Mac OS X volume and the alternative formatting options, other than HFS+, are MS-DOS and UFS while still mounted on OS X).
You can format /dev/sda1 just like any other partition or device. something similar to the following should work: mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1
Many thanks for the advice, Cheers, Phil. -- [phil@localhost ~]# rm -f .signature [phil@localhost ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [phil@localhost ~]# exit