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Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

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On Friday, January 04, 2019 08:36:59 AM Curt wrote:
> On 2019-01-04, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:

> > Perhaps you could consider writing a patch for the man page.
> 
>  -I  It is typical for fixed disk devices to be partitioned so, by default,
> you are not permitted to  create  a filesystem across the entire device. 
> mkfs.fat will complain and tell you that it refuses to work.  This is
> different when using MO disks.  One doesn't always need  parti‐ tions on
> MO disks.  The filesystem can go directly to the whole disk.  Under other
> OSes this is known as the 'superfloppy' format.  This switch will force
> mkfs.fat to work properly.
> 
> I think PH's inference not too arduous from the above, frankly.
> 
> But how about:
> 
>   -I When using MO disks, where partitions aren't always required, modifies
>      mkfs.fat's default behavior, allowing it to write the filesystem
> across the entire, unpartitioned device (called 'superfloppy' format under
> some other OSes).

From the peanut gallery, that (the second) looks good to me, but I missed 
something in the thread -- does MO refer to magneto-optical disks?

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Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2019-01-03 09:10 +0100
  Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 11:40 +0100
    Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-03 21:10 +0100
      Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 11:00 +0100
        Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-04 14:40 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 17:30 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-04 17:40 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 05:00 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-04 17:40 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-01-04 18:50 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-04 20:10 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 10:30 +0100
                Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-05 10:40 +0100
                Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 12:00 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-07 13:30 +0100
          typos (was: Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:40 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-05 10:10 +0100

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