Flash disk

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-01-01 00:35, Margo whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

> Hi
>
> Background:
>
> When I first installed Fedora I plugged in my flash disk and nothing 
> happened. I worked on this for 3 days and then finally realised that 
> the usb ports weren't working at all. I have since changed the MB and 
> they work.
>
> So. Flash disk no 1 now works.
>
> Unfortunately Flash disk No 2 got formatted as fat32 to see if that 
> would make it work before I found out the usb ports weren't working.
>
> When I plug it in n ow, it's picked up as a flash disk (good) however 
> the filesystem comes up as unknown or not recognised.
>
> I have searched everywhere to find out the command to reformat the 
> disk as vfat in linux... perhaps its too basic a command to be in any 
> faq. Can anyone help.
>
At the command line, type "man mkfs". 

You probably want to issue:  "mkfs -t msdos /dev/whatever

I'm not sure, but I think FAT32 (-t vfat) isn't supported for flash 
drives....How did you manage to get it formatted that way in the first 
place?

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Immanuel Kant)

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