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Re: Formatting an SD card

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.os.linux
Subject	Re: Formatting an SD card
Date	2016-01-18 12:39 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID	<dg44ovF9hfuU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-01-18, Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> wrote:
> In article <dg1ug7Fnte8U3@mid.individual.net>, Huge wrote:
>>> A more basic formatting utility -- such as mkfs -- would probably
>>> have worked, too.
>> 
>> Good point. It's been so long since I had to use mkfs, I forgot
>> about it.
>
> That seems to me to symptomatic of one of the problems we face with 
> Linux. It has some very nice, functional, low-level commandline tools 
> (like mkfs) ... but is constantly being criticized for the fact that 
> these tools are not "user friendly" because they require commandline 
> use.

Not by me - I've been adminning Unixey systems for about 30 years. Not
thinking of mkfs is more to do with my advancing age and consequent
poor memory than it is to do with GUIness or otherwise.

Although I do like Guinness.


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Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 20:44 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Chris Whelan <cawhelan@prejudicentlworld.com> - 2016-01-16 21:31 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 21:34 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:54 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-16 22:08 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:55 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-17 14:04 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-17 16:40 +0000
      Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:06 +0000
        Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:39 +0000
          Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-20 15:50 +0000
            Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-20 17:16 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-28 17:38 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 18:00 +0000

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