Re: [SLE] Formatting smart card
From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 11/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:10:58 +0000 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
John B wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 November 2004 03:44, Sid Boyce wrote:
>
>>John B wrote:
>>
>>>Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Well, I figured out how to get my card reader to work, now the thing is
>>>to figure out how to format the card.
>>> It's a 128MB smart card, and when I try to format it to FAT16 in YaST
>>>partitioner, it always comes up FAT32. I've messed with the options and
>>>it still makes it FAT32. Is there another way? Man fdisk left me as
>>>confused as I'd be if it had been written in Chinese, heh.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>
>>fdisk /dev/sda
>>Command (m for help): m
>>Command action
>> a toggle a bootable flag
>> b edit bsd disklabel
>> c toggle the dos compatibility flag
>> d delete a partition
>> l list known partition types ####
>> m print this menu
>> n add a new partition
>> o create a new empty DOS partition table
>> p print the partition table #####
>> q quit without saving changes
>> s create a new empty Sun disklabel
>> t change a partition's system id #####
>> u change display/entry units
>> v verify the partition table
>> w write table to disk and exit #####
>> x extra functionality (experts only
>>"l"
>>6 FAT16
>>"d"
>>"n" and select primary partition 1.
>>"t" and select "6" for FAT16
>>"w".
>> However the manpage is written, the command itself is quite intuitive.
>>Regards
>>Sid.
>
>
> Hi Sid,
>
> Thanks, but that stuff just isn't intuitive to 'me'. Works the same way with
> calculus...some people 'get it', most don't. I didn't, even after 3 semesters
> of trying.
> Anyway, I tried some of the commands above, but kept getting 'invalid
> option' type returns.
>
> John
>
Hmmmmmmmmm.... I don't find it too different to fdisk on DOS, when I
changed to Minix and later Linux, I had no trouble from the start. I
could delete all the partitions, setup new ones and create filesystems
on them. "mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/sda1" would setup FAT16. I suppose the
man pages contain lots of options for those who feel the need for them,
but I like to keep it simple. You have a disk, you want to "print" the
partition table to see what's on it, you decide you want to "delete"
what's there, then you "add a new partition", "print" to see how it
looks, "change" it's partition id to whatever you want, "write and
exit", mkfs and you are done. You can experiment until you are happy,
type "m" and check the command options as you go.
Regards
Sid.
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