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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Could be I am getting confused in my old age. :) I have RS-MMC card |
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that I use with an SD adapter, and that has no partition, so maybe |
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that's what I'm thinking about. |
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In general I try to format my cards on the device I plan to use them |
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with the most. So if it's mostly used in Windows, format it in |
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Windows, if it's used in my phone, or my camera, format in that |
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device. |
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