[PLUG] Restoring vfat to USB flash drive

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Oct 27 19:05:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, wes wrote:

> Do you need Windows compatibility on the flash drive? If not, just restore
> the files from the VFAT partition onto an EXT partition.

Wes,

   To the extent that I use the drive to exchange files with clients and
colleages running Windows, yes.

> If yes, format the flash drive on the Windows machine, then restore the
> files on your linux system.

   Not available.

> As for how to get mkfs.vfat - google tells me this is also known as
> "mkdosfs" which is part of the "dosfstools" package, at least on Debian.
> YMMV.

   I have the dosfstools package installed. Thank you for teaching me that
the executable is called "mkdosfs".

Rich




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