[nmglug] usb-pen drive

[a_kaluta]

Gary;
Your suggestions worked nicely,thanks for the information. Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Sandine" <gars at laclinux.com>
To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] usb-pen drive


> 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).
> 
> 
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