On Sun, 24 May 2020, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 24 May 2020 18:33:25 -0500 (CDT) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to format a 16 GB SD card to FAT32.
Either it won't find the device or it
gives me the titular error message.
mkfs.fat /dev/sdc
First of all, doing it *without* a partition table is not going to work (well
mkfs.fat is not going to care (once you deal with the other error). Since
Thanks much!
That was it.
It did care.
At one point I was even told something like,
won't do it, partition table.
you are formatting iy FAT32, I'm presuming you will be using it in some device
(eg camera, mess-windows machine, etc.). You want an MBR partition table --
Actually, I'm trying to update my BIOS.
The instructions I found require FAT32.
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Trying-to-update-the-bios-on-dc-5800-mt/m-p/5746185#M134271
I have tried "ejecting" the drive and reinserting the card.
I have tried inserting another card, checking to insure
that I could see its file, ejecting that card and
inserting the target card.
If I do not umount it, busy, if I don't, not found.
I'm guessing you are using a GUI and the GUI has some "magic" GUI mounter hack
that automagically mounts USB disks when they show up. You probably have to
turn that off or work around it. I guess umount from a shell will work. Eject
I used eject from the GUI and umount from the command line.
won't work, since that not only umounts the file system, it also removes the
device files (hense "device not found").
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