Le jeu. 24 oct. 2024 à 05:01, Mitchell Dorrell <m...@psc.edu> a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:35 PM syscon edm <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It was my error, the command should be: >> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda >> The usb was auto-mounted as soon as the command finished. >> > > You can format the whole thing (/dev/sda) as one big ext4 volume, yes, but > unless I'm very mistaken, that's not standard practice. USB storage devices > usually have a partition table with one or more partitions defined. The > first partition would be /dev/sda1, so the usual commands to format such a > partition would use /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. > > Since you're formatting it as ext4, I suppose you only intend to use this > on Linux machines. I guess it's probably OK to format the whole device as > ext4, without any partition table. However, I would definitely advise > against it for any USB device you might use in a cross-platform > environment. I have no idea whether you can skip the partition table and > still be usable with computers running Windows or Mac OS or with embedded > systems like home printers or commercial photo kiosks. > > -MD > Hello, Same issue. No automount usb disk ext4 formatted with cinnamon 6. Automounting with fat32, ntfs or xfat formatted disk. Cheers, -- Jacques
