Writing to USB key

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Thomas Beckett wrote:

> I have 1 USB 1 key that works fine and my muvo also works just fine,
> but I also have a Sony 256MB USB2 key. When I plug it in it is
> detected fine (icon shows on desktop and I can open a nautilus window)
> but when I open it the files are not listed at all

I reformat my USB-keys - fdisk - often to ext2.

That said, some keys come with a FAT filesystem on /dev/sda1, where
others come with FAT on /dev/sda.

Check yours.

If 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' has garbage, then sda itself is the filesystem.

Cheers,     Andy!

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