Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

[Rogerio Brito]

On Jun 02 2000, john smith wrote:
 nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas?

Install dosfsutils. It contains the tool mkdosfs so that you
can format your partition. It also provides mkfs.vfat and
mkfs.msdos.


Hope this helps, Roger...

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fdisk/mkfs problem

[john smith]

Hi,
I have created a dos partition via linux's fdisk (FAT32) now I try to write 
it I get ioctl() error..telling me that the resource or device is busy and 
tells me to reboot and check that the partition is updated. I did that and 
it shows in the partition table but now when I try to format it using mkfs 
-t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32 it doesn't allow me to do it. (permission 
denied).


Can somebody please help me out?



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Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

[Bolan Meek]

john smith wrote:
 
 ... mkfs -t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32 

Try '-t vfat'.

Re: fdisk/mkfs problem

[john smith]

nope..it still does'nt work. any other ideas?



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john smith wrote:

 ... mkfs -t FAT32 or mkfs -t Win95 FAT32

Try '-t vfat'.



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RE: fdisk/mkfs problem

[Andrew Weiss]

Title: RE: fdisk/mkfs problem





This command also works


mkfs -t msdos -F 32 /dev/xdxx 


were the first x is scsi (s) or ide (h) and the second is the device order ... 1st ide master, then slave, then 2nd ide master... then slave (a,b,c,d)... or scsi ID order, and then the partition number.

Andrew
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