[PLUG] Mounting USB "Thumb" Drive

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Colin Kuskie wrote:

> If there's no data that you want from the drive, I'd try formatting it.

Colin,

   No data on it, I want to put a presentation on it to take to a meeting.

> If it won't format, then you know it's bad.

   When I try, 'mtools -f /dev/sda' I get a usage message. I guess this means
the tool died on me. Anything else I can try?

Thanks,

Rich

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