Re: mkisofs on usb hard drive key



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

If you're going to run mkdosfs on /dev/sdc, you would need to mount /dev/sdc *not* /dev/sdc1!
.



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