Using 12.3
I have a fat32 8 gig thumb drive that I am trying to partition using Yast, I delete the old partition and make a new ext4 one. However when I try to partition I get these error codes.
System error code was: -3041
System error code was: -1007
System error code was: -3030
I press continue anyways.
Afterwards I access my drive and nothing has changed.
What do they mean and how can I get it to format?
Thanks
On 2014-01-19 20:06, 8ofspades wrote:
> What do they mean
No idea. I have never seen a list of those codes 
> and how can I get it to format?
Using the CLI.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
what commands should I use to format?
Make sure that the device is unmounted first. The ‘mount’ command should be able to confirm.
You can get the relevant device via
fdisk -l
Assuming /dev/sdb1 for example, then
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
Confirm with
blkid
On 2014-01-19 23:56, 8ofspades wrote:
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> what commands should I use to format?
I just remembered. It has been suggested recently to use
“quick-usb-formatter”. Another tool could be “gnome-disk-utility”.
Have a look at this thread, we talked recently about the issue:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=494314
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I wonder if USB drive is automounted when it is inserted which blocks further attempt to change partitions/create filesystem.
Those were my thoughts too (as I hinted at previously).
On 2014-01-20 03:46, arvidjaar wrote:
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> I wonder if USB drive is automounted when it is inserted which blocks
> further attempt to change partitions/create filesystem.
It is possible, yes. The problem is that the yast partitioner gives
numeric errors, and nobody has a list of them. Maybe it was designed as
a commercial product, intending the user calls paid support.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I used the command line, worked great thanks!
Does the command work for formatting drives to fat32?
Yes, you could do (unmounted first of course)
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
or give it a name eg ‘backup’
mkfs.vfat -n backup /dev/sdb1