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Mick wrote: |
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> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in |
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> fdisk: |
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> =========================================== |
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> Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes |
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> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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> Disk identifier: 0x91f72d24 |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 * 1 123 987104 6 FAT16 |
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> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: |
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> phys=(121, 254, 63) logical=(122, 227, 40) |
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> =========================================== |
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> Not sure I understand the "physical/logical endings" comment that fdisk throws |
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> at me. |
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> |
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> This is what sfdisk shows: |
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> =========================================== |
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> # sfdisk /dev/sda |
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> Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... |
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> OK |
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> |
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> Disk /dev/sda: 1011 cylinders, 32 heads, 61 sectors/track |
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> Old situation: |
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> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made |
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> for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 1011/32/61). |
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> For this listing I'll assume that geometry. |
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> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 |
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> |
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> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 * 0+ 122- 123- 987104 6 FAT16 |
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> end: (c,h,s) expected (122,227,40) found (121,254,63) |
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> /dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty |
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> /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty |
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> /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty |
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> Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value. |
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> =========================================== |
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> |
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> Grateful for any attempt to educate me on this! :-) |
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I use fdisk and treat it like any other drive/disk. |
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