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#1 dog05

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Posted 3 March 2013 - 19:42

It's possible to format a usb stick formatted in ext3 to fat32?
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Re: usb stick #2 hemispherical1

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Posted 4 March 2013 - 04:49

The easiest way is probably to plug the stick into a Windows machine. If you want to do it on the Dreambox I think you need to install the dosfstools package then run mkfs.vfat /dev/actual-device (/dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3, etc...) in telnet/ssh...


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Re: usb stick #3 dog05

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Posted 4 March 2013 - 18:11

Hemispherical1, thanks for the suggestion., Now I try and then let you know.
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Re: usb stick #4 dog05

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Posted 6 March 2013 - 15:43

Hemi, I did what you suggested, the process starts but then seems to hang, you can help me figure out where mistake.
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root@dm7025:~# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
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Re: usb stick #5 dog05

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Posted 8 March 2013 - 12:50

Hemi, if you can just answer chains would be grateful.
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