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On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: |
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> >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in |
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> > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no |
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> > avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the |
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> > device itself, nor with a partition for the fs. |
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> > So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ |
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> With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create |
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> proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. |
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> (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1) |
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I have seen a lot of sd cards - anmd they all had a 'real' table with one |
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partition - sdX1. |
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Except for cards that were removed from devices without shutdown/unmounting |
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first. In that case linux was not able to find a valid partition table. |
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