On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:37 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:46, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > Reformat it as ext2? > > I'm getting the idea he wants to do the equivalent of dd-type access > from within Wine? > I guess we'll find out when he replies. > I'm also guessing that Linux have a device for the card? > AFAIK you can do anything to a USB storage device that you can to a directly attached disk. I haven't tried to reformat an SD or CF card, but I have successfully used fdisk to define a USB disk drive as a single ext3 partition and fsck to format it as ext3. > (Probably no partitions that can be mounted though, since he itendes to access the > disk, not a filesystem on top if it?) > I'd be quite surprised if a program running in normal user space, i.e. not as root, can do that. Martin
