On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Mikkel <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you do not have a partition table, Windows does not know what > to do with it, so it will not show up as a drive in My Computer. It > will show up in the hardware list. Oh I see. > While you can use a drive with no partition table, such as you > created when you formatted /dev/sdb, it requires you to manually > mount it. That really I didn't know. I would just mount it in /mnt/pendrivechecks > Even with a proper parition table, if it is not formatted > as FAT, VFAT, or NTFS you will be limited in where you can use it. A > lot of printers, media players, etc do not understand NTFS. Yes. > Now, if you have used /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb, you would have > had better luck. But you want to be careful when you use command > line tools as root - they do exactly what you tell them to do, > without checking if you really want to do that. >From the very basics, could you please tell me sequentially:- i) How to know the partition name while inserting usb pen drive? Running "fdisk -l" or "fdisk" yields, but with "sdb" not written 1 or 2 at the end of 'sdb', and for sure, 'sdb' is the pen drive partition name. Or the command, "dmesg | tail"? ii) After that, I have to unmount it, using the command "umount /dev/sdb" so that it could be formatted. iii) Now for formatting, I would have to use either vfat or ext3. But how to know whether to use the former or the later? iv) I guess it would be correct: $ umount /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME $ /sbin/mkdosfs -F 32 -n usbdisk /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME Where, USBPARTITIONNAME is what I would be getting from query i) > If you had used > /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, you would have wiped out your system. I didn't use sda. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
