digimatrix ~ # dmesg
...
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12
usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 12
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: DCB Model: HS-HD Rev: 2.23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sde: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sde: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
sde: unknown partition table
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Vendor: DCB Model: HS-CF Rev: 2.23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdf
sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
Vendor: DCB Model: HS-MS/SD Rev: 2.23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 4:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdg
sd 4:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
Vendor: DCB Model: HS-SM/XD Rev: 2.23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 4:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdh
sd 4:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete


digimatrix ~ # fdisk /dev/sde
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.


The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 38154.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sde: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Command (m for help):



Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-38154, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-38154, default 38154):
Using default value 38154

Command (m for help):



Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sde: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 38154 39069680 83 Linux

Command (m for help):



Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): L

0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris boot
1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx
6 FAT16 42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data
7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / .
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs
f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT
1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX
Hex code (type L to list codes): c
Changed system type of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))

Command (m for help):


Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.
digimatrix ~ #




digimatrix ~ # mkfs.vfat /dev/sde1
mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)



digimatrix mnt # mount /dev/sde1 usb-disk

digimatrix mnt # mount
...
/dev/sde1 on /mnt/usb-disk type vfat (rw)