Muckshifter & Suse (Linux) ... part II

[Bruno]

Sorry my mistake . . . . . the drive keeps changing name

# mkfs.vfat /dev/sde2

Bruno

[muckshifter]

linux:/home/mucks # mkfs.vfat /dev/sde2mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003)mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file systemlinux:/home/mucks # Never mind ... you did well, I can't thank you enough ... we'll have another go after I have been round my brothers.

[Bruno]

Can you believe it ?? That stubborn USB drive ??Well, okay you have a Linux partition of about 10G on it now . . . . . . and sure with Windows you can format those other 2 to FAT :)What a session !!! . . . . I need a large drink . . . Scotch would do fine ! :PB) Bruno

[muckshifter]

err, Bruno ..."could not mount device""the error was""cant find /dev/sde1 in /etc/fstab or /dev/mtab"

[Bruno]

Please show

# cat /etc/fstab

. . . . . or reboot and check "mount" Bruno

[muckshifter]

linux:/home/mucks # cat /etc/fstab/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0/dev/hdb /media/floppy1 subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0linux:/home/mucks # I'll reboot ... Then I go to bed ... I'm nucking fackard. Thanks again Bruno, not for want of trying, mabe this Suse don't like USB HDs. Catch you all tomorrow TTFNMucks

[Bruno]

Well SUSE keeps renaming that drive at every reboot . . . one time it is sdb . . then it is sde . . . . have no clue why it does that.Also the /etc/fstab is recreated dynamically at every reboot . . so looks different at every reboot too . . . it keeps adding the USB drive even when we remove it . . . would not surprise me it it calls it sdf the next time :DCalling it a day too . . . . goodnight :'( Bruno

[burninbush]

Thanks Adam !!Sorry Mucks . . . . so "type" c it has to be . . . . ( have really no clue about Windows ) Bruno

Folks, fat16 has a 2gb partition size limit. Fat32 allows MUCH bigger -- not sure how much but certainly bigger than 80gb. I have one fat32 part on this box that is 105gb. [All partitions made with cfdisk in about 2 minutes total, and maybe a quarter of the keystrokes seen above with fdisk.] The real problem with those mkfs commands that failed was that they didn't specify F 32, not due to 'type' 0b or 0c; both those are fat32. #mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sd1 ;etc., etc. # ls /sbin/mk*dos* to see the exact name; sometimes it's mkfs.msdos, sometimes that's a link to something else.