On Thursday 08 October 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: > > >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this > > >> in > > > > > > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to > > > no avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the > > > device itself, nor with a partition for the fs. > > > So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ > > > > With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create > > proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. > > (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1) > > I have seen a lot of sd cards - anmd they all had a 'real' table with one > partition - sdX1. > > Except for cards that were removed from devices without shutdown/unmounting > first. In that case linux was not able to find a valid partition table.
I formatted it using MSWindows. Then checked with sfdisk and fdisk and the same errors (of "partition 1 extends past end of disk" and physical/logical endings mismatch) came up. Running parted shows no problems what-so-ever: ==================================== Model: Ut163 USB2FlashStorage (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1011MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1011MB 1011MB primary fat16 boot ==================================== Perhaps parted is more compatible with the MSDOS ways of interpreting disk geometry? -- Regards, Mick
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