On Tuesday 18 March 2003 13:41, Goeman Stefan wrote:
I use following command: mkdosfs -F 32 -v /dev/hdc8 It prints something and then it stops without formatting the partition.
What does it print?
Formatting under linux doesn't include checking the partition (Windoze does this everytime).
For FAT32 the actual "formatting" takes about 2 Seconds. Maybe you _did_ format the partition but expected it to take several minutes.
Did you try and mount the partition?
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc8 /mnt
if that works and the partition is empty it _was_ formatted.
HTH Michi
p.S. PLEASE include the whole console output or at least the last few lines for we can't guess what went wrong if you don't include an error message.
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