12-08-2014, 11:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2014, 11:43 AM by gold_finger.)
Alex,
Just to be sure I know exactly what has happened, are you saying that you re-ran dd command (with fixed "bs=4K") and it only took 16 minutes?
Your fdisk -l output is not showing anything unusual/(wrong) -- just that there is one FAT32 partition on USB.
The GParted pic you posted -- is that what it looked like after zeroing out? Or did you add that FAT32 partition to it yourself?
If the FAT32 partition was on there after running dd command, something is not right. There should be nothing at all on the USB after dd completes -- not even a partition table. If dd ran correctly, you'd need to create a new partition table on USB first, then create new partition(s) on it.
(As an aside, I have no idea whether "Disks" program works and/or if it truly zeros out a drive. I've never used it for anything myself.)
As far as your error message goes, can you tell us exactly how you are trying to mount the drive? What are the exact steps you're trying?
Reason I ask is because GParted pic shows that it is currently mounted at "/mnt". So I'm wondering two things:
Just to be sure I know exactly what has happened, are you saying that you re-ran dd command (with fixed "bs=4K") and it only took 16 minutes?
Your fdisk -l output is not showing anything unusual/(wrong) -- just that there is one FAT32 partition on USB.
The GParted pic you posted -- is that what it looked like after zeroing out? Or did you add that FAT32 partition to it yourself?
If the FAT32 partition was on there after running dd command, something is not right. There should be nothing at all on the USB after dd completes -- not even a partition table. If dd ran correctly, you'd need to create a new partition table on USB first, then create new partition(s) on it.
(As an aside, I have no idea whether "Disks" program works and/or if it truly zeros out a drive. I've never used it for anything myself.)
As far as your error message goes, can you tell us exactly how you are trying to mount the drive? What are the exact steps you're trying?
Reason I ask is because GParted pic shows that it is currently mounted at "/mnt". So I'm wondering two things:
- Are you trying to mount something that is already mounted? -- thus getting an error message.
- Why is it mounted there? Normally, when a USB gets plugged into computer it gets mounted by system at "/media/username".
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