[CentOS] Reformatting a USB drive
Todd Cary
todd at aristesoftware.com
Thu May 24 23:11:33 UTC 2007
Jim -
Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. I had to make one change
though since I use rsync to copy the data to the USB drive: I could not
use vfat. Instead, I used ext3. With vfat, I got errors when it tried
to do a chmod (expected).
I do have another fs question though. A couple of weeks ago I noticed
that the USB icon was not on my desktop when I turned the drive on. Not
knowing any better, I ran my rsync with the following:
/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk/
And it went ahead and did it's thing *but* the drive was
inoperable...dead. Where did the data go?
And I noticed with the new drive, if I turn it off, rsync puts the data
somewhere with
/usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk1/
I need a FS 101 course!!
Todd
Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:
>> I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it?
>> I have identified these properties about it
>>
>> /dev/sda1
>> /media/Extrnl_Bkup
>>
>> Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk
>> (expected).
>
> There are kernel ntfs modules, but really, the most universally
> supported option is to format with vfat. This way it will work on
> windows, mac and linux systems, fully supported all the way around.
> There are some limitations to fat32, 4G file sizes and the like.
>
> The quick and easy way is mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1....tap fingers for a
> minute... then unplug/reinsert.
>
>
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