[nmglug] usb-pen drive

[Gary Sandine]

Hi Anthony.

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 20:06 -0600, a_kaluta wrote:
> Dear Club members:
> Request for comments.
> a no go on : mount -t vfat /dev/uba  /uba;
> ---
> some specs; 
> fdisk /dev/uba -p
> 128 MB, 129499136 bytes
> 255 heads, 63, sectors/track, 15 cylinders
> Units - cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Device Boot : /dev/uba1

Try mounting /dev/uba1 instead of /dev/uba.

...
> tried 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/uba  bs=1024 count=129499
> in the hopes of clearing any disorderly files.
> seems there were 225 sectors originally not 15?

Oh...  Then, try it after running fdisk on /dev/uba and making a
partition and formatting it with mkfs.msdos (or mkfs.ext3 or whatever
file system you like).