How to partition/format USB key into weird setup?

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sun Jun 3 15:25:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 10:58:45PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I've got USB automounting working under mdev with linux and FAT file
> systems.  There's one thing I haven't been able to test, namely the
> pathological setup where a USB key is formatted as one large FAT
> partition, with no standard partition table.  I've heard of these things
> but have never seen one.  Is it possible to generate it under linux for
> testing?

mkdosfs /dev/sdX

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