Need help on partitioning

[nafsnipe685]

I have a 128mb jumpdrive im tring to put fat back on because i accidently removed the partition on, i use it to go between several computers, one windows, and two Red Hat 9 computers....can anyone tell me a program on either linux or windows capable of that!!!!

[Hayl]

to repartition:

fdisk in windows or linux

cfdisk for a (slightly) easier one - linux only

[deathadder]

When its mounted in Red Hat, have you tried to create a partition on with with:

fdisk /dev/sda1 <or what ever the device is>

[nafsnipe685]

well it will let me create a mkfs or ext2 filesystem on the jumpdrive, but it just refuses to let me make a fat partiton on it....i type mkfs.vfat and it comes up with errors...same with mkfs.msdos!!!
but ill try fdisk!!!

[deathadder]

fdisk is used to create a partition on it, not the filesystem, the errors you are having while formatting it as fat are probably caused by the fact that you dont have a partition.

[nafsnipe685]

ok so all i have to do is use fdisk and make a partition on it and then use mkfs.msdos?

And thanks by the way!!!

[deathadder]

Yeah thats all you need to do

[mdwatts]

Create the partition(s) with fdisk and then

mkfs.msdos -F 16 /dev/sda1

For FAT16 and if sda1 is the correct device.

[nafsnipe685]

thanks that worked perfectly!!!!!