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Lars Erdmann

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Jan 7, 2008, 2:46:07 PM1/7/08
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Hallo,

I have a USB stick that was formatted to FAT under WinXP. I can see it
in OS/2 and I can copy something onto it but I am not able neither to
delete nor to create a partition on it, let alone a volume. LVMGUI
always tells me that "free memory cannot be used" or something like
that. I tried primary,logical partition, at start of free space, at end
of free space.
If I try to create an LVM volume, I get the error "this partition could
not be created from free memory".

I want to create an LVM volume on the USB stick so that I can format it
to JFS. What do I have to do ? Or does WinXP format the USB stick as a
large floppy (no partitions) ?


Lars

Ilya Zakharevich

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Jan 7, 2008, 5:09:44 PM1/7/08
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> I want to create an LVM volume on the USB stick so that I can format it
> to JFS. What do I have to do ? Or does WinXP format the USB stick as a
> large floppy (no partitions) ?

I presume any system would format it as large floppy if it was not
partitioned first...

You need to delete the boot record. Zero the first sector. Something
like (dd untested; U: is the stick)

perl -we "binmode STDOUT; print qq(\0) x 512" >zeros
dd bs=512 count=1 if=zeros of=U:

Hope this helps,
Ilya

Rich Walsh

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Jan 8, 2008, 12:38:06 AM1/8/08
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:46:07 UTC, Lars Erdmann <lars.e...@arcor.de> wrote:

> I have a USB stick that was formatted to FAT under WinXP. I can see it
> in OS/2 and I can copy something onto it but I am not able neither to
> delete nor to create a partition on it, let alone a volume.
>

> I want to create an LVM volume on the USB stick so that I can format it
> to JFS. What do I have to do ?

DFSee is good for stuff like this (new mbr, partition table, etc).
Also, if you have any of the eCS 2.0 betas or RCs, its UJFS.DLL
lets you format a compatibility volume with JFS.


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Lars Erdmann

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Jan 12, 2008, 6:32:17 AM1/12/08
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Rich Walsh schrieb:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:46:07 UTC, Lars Erdmann <lars.e...@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I have a USB stick that was formatted to FAT under WinXP. I can see it
>> in OS/2 and I can copy something onto it but I am not able neither to
>> delete nor to create a partition on it, let alone a volume.
>>
>> I want to create an LVM volume on the USB stick so that I can format it
>> to JFS. What do I have to do ?
>
> DFSee is good for stuff like this (new mbr, partition table, etc).
> Also, if you have any of the eCS 2.0 betas or RCs, its UJFS.DLL
> lets you format a compatibility volume with JFS.
>
>
Hi,

in the meantime I got it working (without DFSEE):
1.) formatted the complete stick to FAT
2.) entered LVM and deleted the volume
3.) recreated a LVM volume
4.) formatted to JFS

it now works. (no I don't have access to eCS 2.0 betas)


Lars

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