From: Klaus <klaus.doering...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:44:20 +0100 > Have you tried the mkdosfs on a file located somewhere else, ...
It works in directory FatTest in my home directory. root@dalton:/home/peter# mkdosfs -C -v /home/peter/FatTest/FatFile 1024 mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012) /home/peter/FatTest/FatFile has 64 heads and 32 sectors per track, logical sector size is 512, using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 2048 sectors; file system has 2 12-bit FATs and 4 sectors per cluster. FAT size is 2 sectors, and provides 502 clusters. There is 1 reserved sector. Root directory contains 512 slots and uses 32 sectors. Volume ID is e7f1f6a5, no volume label. > have you tried to create a DOS filesystem > directly on the partition, i.e. without the "-C" option ? That also works. root@dalton:/# mkdosfs -v /dev/sdb1 mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012) /dev/sdb1 has 8 heads and 62 sectors per track, logical sector size is 512, using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 500736 sectors; file system has 2 16-bit FATs and 8 sectors per cluster. FAT size is 248 sectors, and provides 62525 clusters. There are 8 reserved sectors. Root directory contains 512 slots and uses 32 sectors. Volume ID is fb793051, no volume label. > Since you have mounted the USB device, there'll be a filesystem on there > already. Have you tried writing to it, like "touch /media/usb0/testfile"? Also works. root@dalton:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 root@dalton:/# mount | grep sdb /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb0 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=c p437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) root@dalton:/# touch /media/usb0/FatFile root@dalton:/# ls -l /media/usb0 total 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 5 07:50 FatFile A bug in mkdosfs shouldn't be ruled out absolutely. Thanks for the feedback, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171058053.33870.20624@cantor.invalid