[plug] Formatting a USB Flash Disk in Linux

[Ady Gould]

Ok gentlemen and ladies
 
I have been asked how to do some things with a Flash Disk...

1.	unmount a flash disk
2.	format a flash disk to vFAT or such
3.	mount the flash disk to read/write with the FAT FS

The lady in question, Margo, can mount her partner's Flash disk without a
problem in (Red Hat) Fedora, yet her disk will not.
 
As she said to me online: "when I plug it in, fedora inserts the correct
line in the fstab to mount the disk with auto to pick up the fs"
 
Make of Flash Disks: a-data
Flash disk that works is: 32mg usb1.0 - never formatted
Flash disk that will not: a new 256mg usb2.0 - formatted in XP to FAT /
FAT32 with and without the utilities for the drive
 
Can anyone help me with this one - I'm lost anyhow :)
 
 
I've CC-ed Margo this question so if you reply can you send to her as well?
Thanks
 
Ady
 
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