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[ILUG] Can Linux solve a windows problem?

[ILUG] Can Linux solve a windows problem?

Kae Verens kae at verens.com
Fri May 5 16:57:21 IST 2006


Declan Moriarty wrote:
> Windows XP seems to take the biscuit for messing things up. Latest is a
> usb disk/mp3 player - a poor kid's ipod. It has a gig, a lcd screen,
> will record, store mp3s and play. Windows apparently overwrote the early
> directories. I have heard bad things about formatting these, as you lose
> functionality.
> 
>  It shows 
> [dec at genius ~]$ df /media/usbdisk
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda               1000032    210928    789104  22% /media/usbdisk


you should be able to clear it using "fdisk /dev/sda" - put a vfat partition 
on it.

Kae



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