[SWLUG] pen drive formating

[Dick Bain]

On 06/04/07, pbhj (swlug) <swlug at alicious.com> wrote:
> Photorec is pretty good is you're interested in recovery; I think it's part of
> UBCD and maybe even Knoppix now. Depends what sort of format it underwent I
> think.
>
> If the pen drive is smaller then vfat will use a higher percentage of space
> for the file structure - I think prior to GB+ sized pen drives that FAT16 was
> the most common format ... YMMV.
>
> pbhj
My 256Mb drive is fat16
dickb at matilda:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262012928 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 999 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         999      255728    6  FAT16

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