Writing to USB key

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:31:23 +0200, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:
> 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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Thanks, Ill try that when i get in from work tonight but like i said -
it does seem to mount fine so i dont think it will be a case of
mounting the wrong partition - unless whatever does the auto mounting
(hotplug?) is recognising it wrong. Ill check dmesg later.
As for formatting it as ext2 - my other key is - but this one is used
to transfer between linux and other windows machines so cant. I might
try reformatting it in windows, but i would have thought that if it
were a problem like this then windows would not be able to read it
also....
Ill try looking at dmesg later when i plug it in to see if anything
unusual is reported - anywhere else i should check? does hotplug keep
a log?