Re: format usb drive

["Paul Johnson" <baloo@ursine.ca>]

On Jan 28, 2008 2:37 PM, BartlebyScrivener <bscrivener42@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I do >sudo fdisk -l
>
> This is what I get for the USB drive.
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 62 MB, 62914560 bytes
> 2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 975 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1         976       61424    6  FAT16
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(1023, 1, 63) logical=(975, 0, 30)
>
> I tried to format the whole thing with FAT32 by doing:
> sudo mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1
>
> Can someone please tell me what command to use to elmininate any
> partitions on the usb drive and format it for moving files between
> Windows XP and Linux?

Try this:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda

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Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca