[Wylug-discuss] Formatting MP3 Player

[Towle, William]

  I second the "tread carefully" comment.

  I have an mp3 player which appears over a USB connection as a 2GB hard disk, and which is just large enough to convince linux's utilites that it should be FAT32.

  What the mp3 player itself wanted was to find a FAT16-formatted partition that spanned the *near-entirety* of the disk - the acceptable definition of "near-entirety" having taken some time with Google to clarify.

W.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-
> bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher McLean
> Sent: 12 April 2012 12:53
> To: 'Smylers'; wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Formatting MP3 Player
> 
> Hmmmmm... tread carefully. Mp3 players sometimes have their very own
> special set of files they need. if it's an iToy, go here and read things
> about initialisation and how to use gtkPod http://www.gtkpod.org/, and
> carry a big stick as well. For non-iToys, as root from the command line,
> try the following to ID what disk it's assigned to:
> 
> 	fdisk -l (when it's plugged in)
> 	-OR-
> 	tail -f /var/log/messages (before plugging it in, then plug it in)
> 
> once you've got the disk id, do:
> 
> 	mkfs -t vfat /dev/<ID>
> 
> 
> good luck, but I'd try a google on "ubuntu initialise format <YOUR MODEL>"
> before trying to break anything from a command line.
> 
> Chris
> 
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