On 5/9/2013 8:53 PM, Andrew Reis wrote: > I'm receiving the following error when trying to repartition and reformat a > USB flash drive via parted using a simple script. The bug follows: > > > > /sbin/parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary fat32 has the USB key been labeled? frankly, most of my USB keys don't even have a partition table, they just have a single file system ('mkfs.fat32 /dev/sdb') -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast