SCSI device sda: 471619696 512-byte hdwr sectors (241469 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 471619696 512-byte hdwr sectors (241469 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 18 FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. Found signature1 0x40615252 signature2 0x60417272 (sector = 1) FAT: invalid first entry of FAT (0xffffff8 != 0xefffef8) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1. fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 241.4 GB, 241469284352 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29356 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 220 1766990+ 6 FAT16 mkfs.vfat -v /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) Selecting FAT32 on large drive Selecting 8 sectors per cluster /dev/sda1 has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, logical sector size is 512, using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 3533980 sectors; file system has 2 32-bit FATs and 8 sectors per cluster. FAT size is 3445 sectors, and provides 440882 clusters. Volume ID is 45d47fc3, no volume label. mkfs.ext2 -v /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 221312 inodes, 441747 blocks 22087 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=452984832 14 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 15808 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 28 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.