Re: Warehouse Stationary Printers and USB Sticks

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 04:21:06PM +1300, worik wrote:
> On 17/12/15 15:50, Daniel Beer wrote:
> > What you probably want to do is create a partition table containing one
> > single primary partition covering the whole device, set to "W95 LBA"
> > type.
> 
> How?  parted?  It is broken on my Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
> 
> $ sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 0 8000
> parted: invalid token: primary
> Error: Expecting a file system type.
> 
> 
> The man page says:
> 
> mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
>                      Make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type
> (if specified), beginning at  start  and  ending  at  end  (by default
> in megabytes).   fs-type  can  be  one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2",
> "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs", or "ufs".  part-type
>                      should be one of "primary", "logical", or "extended".

I normally use fdisk, but it's slightly unfriendly. There's a help
command when it starts -- unfortunately I can never remember off the top
of my head the exact sequence. It's three commands anyway: one to delete
all partitions, one to create a primary partition, one to write changes
and exit.

Cheers,
Daniel

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