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 wrote:
> As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the
> parti
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
On Monday 03 January 2011 15:43:09 Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>
> To mount the volume
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> >> I create
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>
> To mount the volume
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
mkdosfs does not create any partition, it formats the partition to
VFAT, but it has to be created first. In your example /dev/sda1, the
partit
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:43 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> to create partition...
>
> mkdosfs /dev/sda1
this does not create the partition; this formats an existing partition
as fat.
the problem here is that the pen actually contains a ver small partition
in it (I'm just guessing).
install gpart
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
can you show us the exact command you used ?
cheers
joao
> However,
> after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available. Is there a way
> to create a bigger partition?
>
>
to create partition...
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
To mount the volume
mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail
wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote:
>> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs.
>
> can you show us the exa
I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs. However,
after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available. Is there a way
to create a bigger partition?
Thanks in advance
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