On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: > >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > > > > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no > > avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the > > device itself, nor with a partition for the fs. > > So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ > > With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create > proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. > (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1) >
I have seen a lot of sd cards - anmd they all had a 'real' table with one partition - sdX1. Except for cards that were removed from devices without shutdown/unmounting first. In that case linux was not able to find a valid partition table.
