Re: [tlug] Ubuntu won't format a 2GB SD card as fat 16

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:03:42 +0900, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:

> > Don't format a 2GB card as a superdisk.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> Um...
> 
> Why?

Conventions.

There's nothing preventing you from doing so from a technical point of view
provided you use the correct command line options when setting up the
filesystem[*] on the device (hence the error message thrown back at you).
However, since these things are "meant" to behave like hard disks when used
by the operating system, they "ought to" go the whole 9 yards in that
behaviour and have a partition table (and partitions) just like a hard disk.

[*] - I hesitate to use the term "format" here because you aren't actually
formatting anything in the real sense of the term.

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
home."
                -- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
                   Convention, 1977

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