Re: Warehouse Stationary Printers and USB Sticks

The easy but non-GNU method is just to format the stick on Windows, which
makes Windows cope fine, and Linux cope fine.

On 17 December 2015 at 15:50, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:41:37PM +1300, worik wrote:
> > On 09/12/15 16:26, worik wrote:
> > > I do not think reliability and number of files per node is the issue.
> > >
> > > The issue is compatibility.  I used NTFS as I thought that would be
> > > compatible with windows...  Sigh.  We will see how vfat goes
> > Well
> >
> > sudo mkfs.vfat -c -n MYSTICK -v -I /dev/sdc
> >
> > did not work.  It formatted the stick, I can read it, but atthe
> > Warehouse it did not reject the stick, just sat spinning wheels.
> >
> > Dropping the -I parameter gets me to:
> >
> > $ sudo mkfs.vfat -c -n MYSTICK -v  /dev/sdb
> > mkfs.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
> > mkfs.vfat: Device partition expected, not making filesystem on entire
> > device '/dev/sdb' (use -I to override)
> >
> > (Incidentally is there any way to predict where a stick will mount?  I
> > have to mount it with Nautalis then use the mount command then unmount
> > it.  Crazy)
> >
> >
> > Using gparted I tried to create two partitions but it would not let me,
> > long booring story.  I am a bit stuck....
>
> Hi Worik,
>
> 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.
>
> Then do:
>
>     mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
>
> Assuming, of course, that the partition appears as sdc1.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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