EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 08:25:25 UTC 2009


Hi!

>
> / # fdisk -l
>
> /dev/hda8           54704       91183   293025600    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> I don't understand why this is again NTFS .... After mkfs.ext2  ??
>

NTFS here is the type of the partition. It is set manually using
fdisk, and has nothing to do with actual filesystem format. mkfs.* do
not change partition type.

>
> BUT ... I found a solution  (not THE solution, but a solution)  :-)
>

Good. By the way I prepared a patch which adds mkfs.vfat to busybox.
Hope it will be merged...

Best regards,
--
Vladimir


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