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Old 12-24-2008, 03:52 AM   #1
drkanna217
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Exclamation Format Pen from ext2 to fat32


hai

i have 2 GB pen drive recently i put pendrivelinux.img on that like the below command

fdisk -l
dd if=pendrivelinux.img of=/dev/sdX

Optional - Create a second partition for saving changes:

fdisk /dev/sdX
n (makes a new partition)
p (makes the new partition a primary partition)
2 (makes this the 2nd primary partition)
w (writes the new partition information to the USB drive)
umount /dev/sdX1
mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L live-rw /dev/sdX2


after that i am trying to formatted my pen drive (in windows) it showing on 400MB how to get my 2GB

when i insert into Linux machine it showing two partition


i want to format my pen drive as single partition how to do this?

please tell me the procedure to do format

Last edited by drkanna217; 12-24-2008 at 03:58 AM.
 
Old 12-24-2008, 04:25 AM   #2
linuxlover.chaitanya
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In linux you can delete the partition and then format it. Before that back up the data if you feel so. Use mke2fs -j /dev/sdb to format it as one single partition.
 
  


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