Trouble with usb-stick
So you are working on a conference poster on an ordinary Tuesday evening on your little brother and sister's Windows computer. Accidentally you forgot that you had locked your usb-stick (it has one of these little switches that floppies also used to have), so when you press Ctrl+S to save your work, Windows crashes, and an evening's work is gone.
On Wednesday you come home to your iMac. You plug in your usb-stick to redo the work you've done Tuesday evening. When you want to save your work on the usb-stick to take it to work the next day, it starts to shout that there's not enough disk space, because when you delete stuff via Mac it does not erase it, it just makes it invisible or something like that. So then you want to format the disk, and in Mac OS X you cannot format it in such a way a Windows computer can still read it. Fine, you decide to format it in UNIX style to plug it into your Linux machine at work. Then, believe it or not, Linux says: Bad media types ee/f8, probably non-MSDOS disk !!!
Whose idea was it to have different filesystems????
posted by merpel at 10:18 AM
3 Comments:
Hi merpel,
tough luck with the USB pen eh. Did you manage to fix it eventually? Perhaps one of the fdisk tools (cfdisk isn't so bad) might fix your problems. Let me know if I can be of help :)
It might have something to do with the deleted files being stored in some sort of invisible trash can, which seems on the one hand silly, and on the other plausible. I'm going to try that tonight. I got a system administrator from naturalis to format it (because I don't have the necessary rights to do so myself and they can only give me those by giving me an administrator account which they won't) so I can at least use it again..
Bummer !! you've formatted it
Files placed in the trash can still take up diskspace on the original drive it was deleted from. So after deleting files from a usb-stick alway clean up your trash can on a Mac.
If that doesn't work, you could take a look at .trash folder at the root directory of the usbstick on your mac or linux machine and remove the files in that directory. This should clean up those deleted files.
oh the last comment on this page could help to fix this problem in the future.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060317195030935
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