Re: problem ... experimenting

[Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

first make sure it is unmounted "umount /dev/sda1"

then "fdisk -l /dev/sda".  the "-l" means list partition information. 
look at the partition type code for sda1 and look at the size to make
sure it is as full as you want it to be

if you are wanting it to be formatted fat32/vfat you need to make sure
the type code is "0c" or just "c".  you can do this by running "fdisk
/dev/sda" then hitting "t".  if it prompts you for what partition (it
shouldnt if you have only 1) then tell it "p" for primary and "1" for
first primary.  when it asks you for the partition type enter "c" (you
will know because it will say press L to list codes).  once that is
done hit "w" to write out changes and exit back to a command prompt. 
do a "sync" to make sure all data is written out to the drive.

use "mkfs -t msdos -F 32 /dev/sda1" to format it.  after it gets done
formatting do another "sync"

once that returns then you can mount it or remove it or whatever you
want to do with it.

Casey


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:48:52 -0600, bntly_rhds <bentley.rhodes@gmail.com> wrote:
>         okay ... i discovered a way around my mistake.  it may not be THE
> answer, but it is my solution for now.  i basically copied everything
> off to another folder and told it to reassign the ownerships and stuff
> there in a temp folder, and then formatted the sandisk 256mg usb drive.
>   which brings up another problem.
>         when i formatted it (to remove all previous information there) it
> wouldn't let me format it (using parted) as a fat32 drive.  it would say
> cannot comply.  i told it to start at 0 and end at 250 (the drives start
> and end points before were 0.031 and 243.171 (i tried that too)).  it
> failed.  so i formatted it as ext2.  i'm going to try again later to get
> it back to fat32, but at least it is working.
>         on a different topic ... i was wondering if anyone ever tried making
> their /home folder on the /media/home?
> 
> bntly_rhds wrote:
> > hey i was experimenting with my HOME folder, i made a backup first, and
> > the experiment didn't work.  long story short, somehow, my usb drive
> > thinks that ROOT owns all the files.  they originally belonged to me.
> > root moved them and i didn't.  how do i put them back to me?  i'm trying
> >  the following:
> >
> > chown -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
> > chgrp -R (or -Rv) bntly_rhds /media/TYEBLEN/bntly_rhds/
> > chmod -R u+rwx,g+rw-x,o+r-wx
> >
> > it says (with -Rv) that i'm not allowed (even as root) to change the
> > user ID or group ID of the folders, and or files.
> >
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