On Wednesday 23 April 2008 16:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:32 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:15, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:05 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Due to a loss of concentration I have a damaged directory called > > > > Packages on my pen-drive. I can't rm it - Input/output error. I've > > > > cleared everything else off. How can I get rid of this? > > > > > > Format the drive. You could also try fsck but an I/O error looks bad. > > > > fsck said it had corrected errors, but it didn't help. Strangely, here > > isn't a man page for format. > > I meant format as a generic term. On Unix/Linux it's mkfs. > > Pendrives often have more than one partition. Format the largest one and > use that. The others are for useless builtin software which only runs on > Windows. You may or may not be able to remove them with fdisk (some > drives are highly non-standard in this respect). > > [Generally VFAT is OK for pendrives, because portability is always good, > but remember it doesn't support symlinks or the Linux protection model. > For carrying stuff around it's fine. Also, careful with the total number > of files per folder since VFAT limits this (can't remember the number, > sorry). I've often run into "out of space" errors on a pendrive that's > only half full, because of the total number of files in a folder -- a > workaround is to create additional folders. > > However since I suspect you're doing this to copy F9 Preview, ext3 is > probably the way to go in this case.] > You're quite right about the purpose. Listing the file types in fdisk, I only saw Linux and Linux Swap. Do I have to create ext2 then add a journal? I did this once a long time ago. Is it e2fs? Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
