Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive
I sort of found a solution for myself. Remove all partitions from usb
drive. Format the drive using mkdosfs -I /dev/sda. This gives me now
access to the entire drive.
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the
> partitioning. In order to do partitioning I'd either use fdisk or gparted.
> For fdisk, (off the top of my head);
> sudo fdisk /dev/sda
> p
> d 1
> (Repeat until there are no listings)
> n p 1 (accept defaults)
> p (you should see one linux native partition taking up all of the space)
>
> I don't recall if you need to change the partition (t)ype or what you change
> it to.
>
> After your done with fdisk, (w)rite the table and then run your mkfs command
> (which, I suspect if you look mkdosfs is actually a symlink or alias to
> mkfs.vfat
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