Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:43:09 Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>
> To mount the volume
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
>
> <joao.miguel.c.ferreira@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> >> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
> >
> > can you show us the exact command you used ?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > joao
> >
> >>   However,
> >> after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available.   Is there a way
> >> to create a bigger partition?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance

Partition the drive to have only one partition covering the whole volume 
before you make the filesystem?
Lisi