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Old November 12th, 2006, 02:02 PM
carlosflange carlosflange is offline
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In Linux you don't need to use parted, because the entire drive needs to be formatted (actually it cannot have partitions). Using option "-I" with "mkfs" forces the formatting of the entire device. Here is how I did it (assuming UMS firmware):
> su
> mount
(check which device was used to mount the device, say "/dev/sda")
> umount /dev/sda
> mkfs -V -t vfat -c -I /dev/sda

Then unplug and turn off and on. That's it.
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