[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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