Re: [fedora-india] How to re-format readonly USB drive

[Lakshmipathi.G]

No,mkfs is not working. I tried vfat,ext2,ext3 but everything fails .

strace output -
open("/dev/sr1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL)         = -1 EROFS (Read-only file system)
write(2, "mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/s"..., 35mkfs.vfat: unable to open
/dev/sr1
) = 35
exit_group(1)                           = ?



On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Debayan Banerjee <debayanin(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On 7 March 2011 16:33, Lakshmipathi.G
> <lakshmipathi.g(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Hi -
>  > I have an USB drive formatted as readonly ISO9660 . I need to reformat it
>  .
>
>  mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdb
>
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