Re: mkisofs on usb hard drive key

"heavytull" <heavytull@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Dances With Crows wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006 13:15:35 -0700, heavytull staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
root@headmuz:/mnt/cdrom/kernels# fdisk /dev/sdc
[ heavytull creates 1 partition ]
Changed system type of partition 1 to b (W95 FAT32)

# mkdosfs -I -F32 -n slack -v /dev/sdc
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/pen_drive/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

You created one partition, then mkdosfs'ed the *entire disk*. You
probably wanted to mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdc1 .

the only fs related diff between your probable command (mkdosfs -F32
/dev/sdc1) and the command i tried (mkdosfs -I -F32 -n slack -v
/dev/sdc) is the -I option which is requested when the disk is not
empty.

You have trouble reading. Note /dev/sdc1 vs /dev/sdc. Those are NOT
equivalent. /dev/sdc1 is the first partition on the disk /dev/sdc It is NOT
the same as /dev/sdc. /dev/sdc writes over the whole of the disk, MBR,
partition table and all. It may well work fine, but not if you try to use
/dev/sdc1.


I know mkdosfs does work properly on full disk with -I option because I
always do that way with floppies.

ps: I tried both b and c hex codes for the partition type with fdisk,
The result is the same.
I mentioned this just to avoid to see some senseless answers as I'm
used to see;
I know the problem is not related to fs type.



Yep, because the error is in a different place. 0x0b is the right type
for a 2G filesystem, IIRC. HTH,



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