[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to
already have a partition table that contains a single partition,
/dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file
systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - which
does not use windows partition table formats (which linux does use), so
you may need to use fdisk or cfdisk.
So I guess it would make it easier if I formatted it FAT32 before
connecting it (it is indeed a Mac OS X volume and the alternative
formatting options, other than HFS+, are MS-DOS and UFS while still
mounted on OS X).
You can format /dev/sda1 just like any other partition or device.
something similar to the following should work:
mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1
Many thanks for the advice,
Cheers,
Phil.
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