On 08/22/2010 01:58 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:48 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> Yes, it was failed but the pen drive (in which some videos were there,
> unfortunately which had o back-up!) was formated successfully. And I
> returned it to my friend. Next day, he says, he was not able to work
> with that, which amazed me and still he looks for a solution! But the
> main thing is that it was successfully formatted at least once!
Partitioning: Preparing the drive for the partitions it will have, even
if there will only be one part.
Formatting: Putting some file system in place on the partition.
It's two steps, even if you have one application that can do both for
you. If you remove the partitioning info, then formatting it isn't
possible.
It is possible to format, and mount, a drive without a partition
table. But you have to mount it manually, because the auto-mount
software does not know how to handle it. Windows will also have a
problem with it.
For that matter, did you know that you can use a drive as one big
tar archive? Try it with a pen drive or memory card you don't mind
re-partitioning afterwards.
tar -cf /dev/sdc *
tar -xf /dev/sdc *
Mikkel
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