Partitioning USB Mass Storage [SOLVED]

cazort · Last edited by cazort on Thu May 08, 2008 1:49 am; edited 1 time in total

I can't find any documentation on how to partition USB mass storage. I bought a 500GB USB drive that works beautifully and came with a FAT32, if possible I'd like to make several partitions, one FAT32 and the rest reiserfs or ext3. I'd like to use something like cfdisk if possible.

Not sure how to do this or where to go for documentation.

Thanks in advance!
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject:

cazort,

Forget its USB. Treat it like any other drive and fdisk it.

A 500GB FAT32 partition ... yuck. Thats two huge FATs to cache, 64KB file allocation units.
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cazort · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:28 am Post subject:

I ran fdisk on /dev/sda because this is what it was recognizing the drive as and now the device seems broken. When I plug it in, dmesg gives me this error:

usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 4-2: device not accepting address 4, error -71
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 4-2: device not accepting address 5, error -71

No /dev/sda shows up as before.
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cazort · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

Ok...so without knowing what was going on, I restarted and that problem went away. Now it mounts! Thanks.
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