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linux and 16g usb flash drives…

I just got a 16g flash drive, as the price came into the reasonable range.  The first thing I noticed was that it refused to automount.  I forced the issue with “sudo mount -t vfat …” but it was a real PITA to even copy a file.

The Philly Linux User Group [PLUG] provided the following:

1. blow away the partition (fdisk)

2. create new partition

3. format  (I used mkfs.vfat -F 32)

POOF - it automounts.

Thanks, PLUG!

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