unable to get drive geometry when mkfs.vfat
I got this message when I tried to format my eternal usb hard disk to vfat format. Do you know what it is about?
# /sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/uba3 mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) unable to get drive geometry, using default 255/63 i have umount all the /media/ I have done an experiment on /dev/uba3. I was able to /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/uba3 but not on mkfs.vfat |
I have the same problem with an old USB music player. I tried to use parted and fdisk, but nothing worked. I don't know about your drive, but in my case there has a bug been reported before, with some nice specs that could help the people.
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any other replies?
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I finally managed to format my USB disk found on /dev/sdc like this(apparently my disk was too small for fat32):
mkdosfs -F 16 -I /dev/sdc |
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I have the same problem and I tried with your example above but the error is the same...The partition is 800 mb on USB.. Dont know what to do,anyone help please :newbie: |
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