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. > > ==>

mkfs problem

2019-03-10 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
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 any explanation? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-24 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 18:56 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:41 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Hi! For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know > why. Please tell me why it works now: ... > I can see number of cylinders has changed. But I do not know

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:41 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > Hi! > > For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know > why. Please tell me why it works now: > > At 18:06 +0100 23/02/07, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > ... > >>I'm not sure if I follow. You have (had?) the fol

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hi! For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know why. Please tell me why it works now: At 18:06 +0100 23/02/07, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: ... I'm not sure if I follow. You have (had?) the following disk: #fdisk -l /dev/sdc Device Boot StartEnd Blocks

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 11:45 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:12 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Now another problem appears - that also was there before. mkfs.vfat can not see the first partition only: pc:/dev#mkfs.vfat -f 1 /dev/sdc1 The command: pc:/dev#mkfs.ext2 /dev/sd

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:12 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > Now another problem appears - that also was there before. > > mkfs.vfat can not see the first partition only: > pc:/dev#mkfs.vfat -f 1 /dev/sdc1 > The command: > pc:/dev#mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdd2 > mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > Could no

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 10:02 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:51 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ The memo

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 07:02, Matthew K Poer wrote: > If you want to 'mkfs.vfat' try 'apt-get install dosfstools' as it > handles FAT systems. > > Odd: I was wondering earlier how to reformat my USB MSD. I guess mkfs > will do it. I probably wouldn't have remembered the command 'mkfs' if it > had

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:51 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch > distribution. > > I have followed the description on this page: > http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ > The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -

etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hope this is the right group... I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ - in section 3.1 The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -la /dev/sd* ) up as

etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hope this is the right group... I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ - in section 3.1 The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -la /dev/sd* ) up as

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-03 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jun 02 2000, john smith wrote: > nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas? Install dosfsutils. It contains the tool mkdosfs so that you can format your partition. It also provides mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos. Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

RE: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread Andrew Weiss
Title: RE: fdisk/mkfs problem This command also works mkfs -t msdos -F 32 /dev/xdxx were the first x is scsi (s) or ide (h) and the second is the device order ... 1st ide master, then slave, then 2nd ide master... then slave (a,b,c,d)... or scsi ID order, and then the partition number

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread john smith
nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas? From: Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fdisk/mkfs problem Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:22:38 -0500 MIME-Vers

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread Bolan Meek
john smith wrote: > > ... mkfs -t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32 Try '-t vfat'.

fdisk/mkfs problem

2000-06-02 Thread john smith
Hi, I have created a dos partition via linux's fdisk (FAT32) now I try to write it I get ioctl() error..telling me that the resource or device is busy and tells me to reboot and check that the partition is updated. I did that and it shows in the partition table but now when I try to format it u