On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Looking at the tail end of dmesg moments after you've inserted a
drive
is an easy way to see where the system finds it. And you don't need to
be the root user to read that info.
Yeah I got it very easily.
With fdisk, you have to be familiar with all your drives on the
system,
so you can tell apart the newly inserted one from the others. That's
probably not too hard to do with a single USB flash drive, but gets
complex with multiple drives.
Yes.
> ii) After that, I have to unmount it, using the command
"umount
> /dev/sdb" so that it could be formatted.
Is that a question?
In fact it was a statement I was confused at and was confirming that I
have to do it because it is a must to unmount the pen-drive before
formatting, but I only didn't put a question mark at the end.
vfat if you want to easily use the device on different computer
systems,
including different Linux systems where your (numerical) user ID isn't
always the same on each system.
ext3 if you want to keep the different permissions and ownerships
per
user, only intend to use it on Linux systems, or Windows systems where
you've installed extra drivers to handle ext3.
Now really, I know the basic difference. So I must use "vfat".
> iv) I guess it would be correct:
> $ umount /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME
> $ /sbin/mkdosfs -F 32 -n usbdisk /dev/USBPARTITIONNAME
> Where, USBPARTITIONNAME is what I would be getting from query i)
Looks right. But don't take my word for it, read: man mkdosfs
Sure, but I got these links from the page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#How_to_Format
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia