Re: usb flash drive

2003-08-14 Thread Javier Gostling
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:19:22AM -0400, Ben Hall wrote: The flash cards are likely formatted fat32 (vfat) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MOUNTPOINT should automatically pick the fs type for you. If not, add a -tvfat to the mount command. Though, if you plan on using it only on linux, you can put

usb flash drive

2003-08-14 Thread Sachintha Karunaratne
hi, i recently bought a usb flash drive. i want to use it under linux. can somebody tell me the type of the file system that i should use when mounting it. thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: usb flash drive

2003-08-14 Thread Edward Dekkers
Ben Hall wrote: The flash cards are likely formatted fat32 (vfat) Just to interject - they are usually NOT FAT32, rather FAT12 - some are FAT16 but I've never seen a FAT32 one. Reason being that their capacities are SO SMALL, that FAT16 or FAT32 are way too wastefull on overhead. FAT12 is

Re: usb flash drive

2003-08-14 Thread Ben Hall
The flash cards are likely formatted fat32 (vfat) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MOUNTPOINT should automatically pick the fs type for you. If not, add a -tvfat to the mount command. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 11:01, Sachintha Karunaratne wrote: hi, i recently bought a usb flash drive. i want to use

Re: Failure to connect USB flash drive

2003-06-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: Please refer to the below Q A from the USB FAQ. One of our customers is seeing this behaviour right now. The weird bit is that the setup has worked in the past, and as far as I know, the hardware or BIOS (or OS installation) haven't changed at all. Any ideas what might

Failure to connect USB flash drive

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Please refer to the below Q A from the USB FAQ. One of our customers is seeing this behaviour right now. The weird bit is that the setup has worked in the past, and as far as I know, the hardware or BIOS (or OS installation) haven't changed at all. Any ideas what might cause this problem to

Re: Failure to connect USB flash drive

2003-06-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
Toralf Lund wrote: Please refer to the below Q A from the USB FAQ. One of our customers is seeing this behaviour right now. The weird bit is that the setup has worked in the past, and as far as I know, the hardware or BIOS (or OS installation) haven't changed at all. Any ideas what might