[PLUG] Formatting thumb drive
Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 03:49:43 UTC 2006
# from John Jason Jordan
# on Friday 17 November 2006 07:25 pm:
>And do I assume correctly that if I
>use my Linux computer to reformat the drive (FAT32), I will finally
>exorcise the evil installed on it by SanDisk?
Maybe, but why do you need to? (Formatting a usb drive on Linux may
render it incompatible with some computers (I've seen trouble just
trying to mount it on different linux boxen), though that seems to have
been healed in recent kernels.)
I'm wondering if you're actually getting it deleted or just wandering
into something funky with the automounter. If you do the following, do
you still see the files on the second ls? If not, then try the windows
box and see if something really funky is going on.
mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb
ls -a /media/usb/
# rm whatever files offend you
umount /media/usb
mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb
ls -a /media/usb/
--Eric
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"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that
bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
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