New USB drive formatting

[Gilles Gravier]

You mean "gparted" ... not "gpartd". :)

Gilles.

debiani386 wrote:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>   
>> Dave M wrote the following on 01.05.2007 20:32:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> But when I did $mkfs and when I do $dmesg I see a warning that there is no 
>>> partition table:
>>>     
>>>       
>> When it complains about the partitin table i would start from scratch and
>> make a new one with fdisk or cfdisk.
>> (You would like to use this drive to store your data (maybe backups), right?)
>>
>> Generally spoken your approach is right. But it seems this drive allready
>> came with an broken partition table.
>>
>> bye Thilo
>>   
>>     
> im wondering if gpartd could do all that?
> --cj
>
>   

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