USB thumb drive questio

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 08:15 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Mikkel,
> 
> > I find it strange that any drive of that size can not be formatted
> > FAT32. 
> 
> I'm equally unresolved.  These 2 USB thumb drives can't be formatted as
> FAT 32.  I tried many times in past on FC3 box running;
> 
> - fdisk to set the FS as FAT32 and then formatted it with vfat
> - mkfs -t FAT32
> 
> "fdisk -l" only showed them as FAT16.  Would fdisk can't recognize
> FAT32?
> 
> 
> > I could see where the BIOS might have a problem if it is
> > looking for a specific signature at the start of the drive. I would
> > think you could get around it for Grub by installing to the boot
> > record of the active partition instead of the MBR. 
> 
> Could you pleae explain in more detail how to make it?  Tks.
> 
> 
> > I have no idea
> > why they wouldn't format as FAT32 though. That seems really strange
> > to me. But I have not used that brand, so maybe there is something
> > strange about them.
> 
> 
> They worked on FC3 without problem either for storage or for running
> "Linux on pendrive".  They booted on FC3 and the OS running on them
> worked similar to the OS running on HD or Live CD
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would you please learn to use man pages...

man mkfs
man mkfs.vfat

mkfs -t FAT32 # isn't a valid option

Craig