I sort of found a solution for myself. Remove all partitions from usb drive. Format the drive using mkdosfs -I /dev/sda. This gives me now access to the entire drive.
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the > partitioning. In order to do partitioning I'd either use fdisk or gparted. > For fdisk, (off the top of my head); > sudo fdisk /dev/sda > p > d 1 > (Repeat until there are no listings) > n p 1 (accept defaults) > p (you should see one linux native partition taking up all of the space) > > I don't recall if you need to change the partition (t)ype or what you change > it to. > > After your done with fdisk, (w)rite the table and then run your mkfs command > (which, I suspect if you look mkdosfs is actually a symlink or alias to > mkfs.vfat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=qo_j45lwwvzbjlglnby46d=bd-kjqtcj50...@mail.gmail.com
