Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 21:58, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 19:50, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: In current versions of Debian, /etc/mtab should be a symlink

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/03/2019 à 21:58, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 19:50, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: In current versions of Debian, /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/mounts.    on my laptop, mtab is

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 19:50, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: What kind of system are you using ?   Debian Stretch In current versions of Debian, /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/mounts.   on my laptop,

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/03/2019 à 19:50, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: What kind of system are you using ?   Debian Stretch In current versions of Debian, /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/mounts.   on my laptop, mtab is actually a link to ../proc/self/mounts

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 18:36, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : I said half-resolved, as I found a line with /dev/sdh1 in /etc/mtab. Removing it solved the problem, but remains the question:   why /etc/mtab was not updated? What kind of system are you using ?

Re: mkfs problem

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/03/2019 à 17:01, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : hi, I'm trying to format a new USB flash drive and I get this: ==> mount | grep sdh ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1     mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)     mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted filesystem. ==>

Re: mkfs problem

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 05:01:34PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I'm trying to format a new USB flash drive and I get this: ==> mount | grep sdh ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/03/2019 à 18:36, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : I said half-resolved, as I found a line with /dev/sdh1 in /etc/mtab. Removing it solved the problem, but remains the question:   why /etc/mtab was not updated? What kind of system are you using ? In current versions of Debian, /etc/mtab shoul

Re: mkfs problem (half resolved)

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I'm trying to format a new USB flash drive and I get this: ==> mount | grep sdh ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted filesystem. ==> mkfs /dev/sdh1 works I said half-resolved, as I

Re: mkfs problem

2019-03-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/03/2019 à 17:01, Pierre Frenkiel a écrit : hi, I'm trying to fromat a nes USB flash drive and I get this: ==> mount | grep sdh ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1     mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)     mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted filesystem. ==> mkfs /dev/sdh1     works You should not fo

Re: mkfs problem

2019-03-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 05:01:34PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I'm trying to fromat a nes USB flash drive and I get this: > > ==> mount | grep sdh > > ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1 > mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) > mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted filesystem. > > ==>