topic Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8 in Operating System - Linux

Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Tammy Liang — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:15:39 GMT

How can I format USB drive on redhat 8?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Jeroen Peereboom — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:31:29 GMT

My USB pen drive is formatted as FAT32, and I mount it with mount -t vfat or something like vfat).

If you (really) want to format your USB drive for Linux, you have to use fdisk to partition it, and next create a filesystem on the partition (newfs, mkfs).

But I would just use Windows to format it....

JP

Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Stuart Browne — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:55:57 GMT

you could also use the appropraite 'mkfs -t ' command (vfat in this case).

But it'd be safer to use a Windows box if you have one available.

Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:05:40 GMT

Thue USB drive has to be unmounted before the format.
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
if you wish to format the USB that's on /dev/sda1 with fat

Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:49:45 GMT

i would use newfs or mkfs command.

SEP

Re: Fromat USB drive on RH 8

Thomas Bianco — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:33:22 GMT

i would recomend no messing with it. most of these devices are not "true" disk but only emulate the filesystem.

my Lexar specifically states that you cannot format it with OS level tools, but requires it's own windows program that directly writes to HW.