Hi All,

I have formated my 2GB pen drive in linux machine using
"mkfs.ext3" command.

Now I am unable to use the pen dive in windows machine,

I tried to format the drive again using "mkfs.fat32"
but it's not executing. The error is............

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[root@Gangeswar gangeswar]# mkfs.fat32 /dev/sdd
bash: mkfs.fat32: command not found
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Please tell me how to use the drive in windows machine.

The first problem is that windows is not able to read ext3 filesystems, so switching to fat32 is a good idea.
Try with mkfs.vfat.
Alternatively, format the pen in windows with fat32, and linux will read it without problems.

Many many Thanks.

Here I want to add some information related to the per drive format.


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[root@gan]# fdisk /dev/hdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.


The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-4865, default 1): 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-4865, default 4865): 4865

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): c


Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

Rebooted to Windows and Formatted the Pen drive again, Now It's fine to both the Operating systems.