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« on: November 04, 2008, 11:02:12 pm » |
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Hi..I picked up an 8gig thumb with the desire to install vl to it...this naturally did not work in my favor because I am a moron...that said
in the process I open gparted on the live 5.9 std cd and seen the sda as fat 32 and deleted and created an ext2..now I can not create the original fat32
could someone help me recover the thumb to fat 32 so I can make use of it and move on
thanks
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 08:55:07 am » |
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why can't you create the fat32 partition?
you should be able to do that from gparted on a running 5.9 system... I've done it several times
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 11:09:25 am » |
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I do not know how I guess, never used gparted...I can highlite the current sda1 ext2 and click delete to see not allocated but when I create a new partition fat 32 I get an error...when I try again it shows that it was not deleted but is still ext2
nevermind I will chuck the thumb and move on...sorry....likely every fool knows, It simple does not work for me
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« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 11:22:33 am » |
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mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdb
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« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2008, 11:30:03 am » |
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root:# mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
mkdosfs: Will not try to make filesystem on full-disk device '/dev/sda' (use -I if wanted)
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« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 11:56:23 am » |
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well if thats what you want add the -I
mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda -I
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« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2008, 12:25:09 pm » |
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In gparted, after 'deleting' the partition (sda1) you should apply the operation. Until it's applied it's simply an action that will take place in the future. Maybe that's the step you're missing?
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« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2008, 01:11:40 pm » |
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currently-gparted
partition /dev/sda1 ! filesystem fat32 size 7.85GiB used - unused - flags
note: ! (in yellow triangle)
is this right ? I am thinking no
the thumb is auto mounted so I need to unmount befor doing anything right?
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« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2008, 01:35:56 pm » |
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yes, unmount before making any changes in gparted.
The exclamation point is disconcerting. I am not sure why gparted is indicating a ?problem?. Perhaps try the whole process over again: delete the partition, apply the changes, create new fat32 partition, apply the changes, refresh device list.
Good luck!
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« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2008, 02:46:16 pm » |
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current -gparted
partition=/dev/sda1
filesystem=(green square)fat32
size=7.85Gib
used=15.70MiB
unused=7.84GiB
flags
I had to click device and then click create new partition table to get this
any idea why I am useing 15.70Mib...it is new with nothing on it and had no used space when first pluged
sorry for being so stupid...but you have to start somewhere
if I can get the thumb to its original state then I can live in denial and start again and hopefully do it right
cheers
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« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2008, 02:58:38 pm » |
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I cannot explain why ~15mb is shown as used. Does 'df -k' confirm what gparted indicates?
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perhaps it's reserved space for file allocation table or some such thing??? don't really know, just speculating
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« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2008, 03:14:49 pm » |
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ok...I went out and got a new 1gig of the same brand and it has the ! in the yellow triagle at first plug.
for the 8gig I did: mkdosfs -I -F fat32 /dev/sda
now it looks the same in gparted when pluged...so the ! just is I guess..thanks
I think I'm back to having a new 8gig thumb to install vl
I do not know where to start so will put on hold
Thanks uelsk8s and newtor and thanks moe-Inx for reminding me to keep it real
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« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2008, 10:43:37 pm » |
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I just had pretty much the same problem, and it seems it was vl-hot mounting it when gparted was working (even though it wasn't mounted when I started gparted). If you're using vl-hot, I fixed it by putting "sdf*" in the exclude line in vl-hot-config. Change for your device name. Then remove the line to mount it again when plugged in. If you're using hal, don't have a clue  |
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2008, 08:56:24 am » |
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If you're using vl-hot, I fixed it by putting "sdf*" in the exclude line in vl-hot-config. Change for your device name.
You can simply use sd* if you don't want to be bothered to figure it out and don't want to plug'n mount another drive in the meantime...  |
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2008, 08:58:23 am » |
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If you're using vl-hot, I fixed it by putting "sdf*" in the exclude line in vl-hot-config. Change for your device name.
You can simply use sd* if you don't want to be bothered to figure it out and don't want to plug'n mount another drive in the meantime... WoW!... Happy 2000th post Joe |
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