SD card suddenly read-only

[Emanoil Kotsev]

--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: SD card suddenly read-only
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:27 PM
> 2008/10/14 Jason Straight
> <jason at jeetkunedomaster.net>:
> > you can format it with linux as well - sudo mkfs.vfat
> -F32 /dev/[sdcard]
> >
> > or -F16 if you want fat16.
> >
> 
> Thanks. I've found that Windows machines are picky
> about USB storage
> formated on Linux, especially when using UTF-8 filenames.
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

I don't remember that FAT has UTF support. There for you specify it as mount option. The formatting has nothing to do with it.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

regards