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Fat32 Format Fail in Ubuntu
Chronon:
The "3" should label a partition on /dev/sdd. My main hard drive is /dev/sda but contains many different partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. Each device should have its own distinct letter.
gevaerts:
--- Quote from: Rodney9 on November 27, 2008, 02:38:41 PM ---If I leave the 3 off /dev/sdd3 how will it know which device to use, might it format /dev/sdd1 , sdd1 is my main hard drive.
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I would recommend finding a Windows PC with itunes, and let that handle the conversion. The manual conversion is really only suited for people who know the difference between partitions and drives, or when there's no other choice, as it's easy to destroy your entire system by using the wrong device nodes
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: Rodney9 on November 27, 2008, 02:38:41 PM ---If I leave the 3 off /dev/sdd3 how will it know which device to use, might it format /dev/sdd1 , sdd1 is my main hard drive.
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No. Overwriting the boot sector does not format anything. You will loose the partition information when doing it, but the data itself won't be touched (it might not be trivial recovering the data once you overwrote the boot sector, but it is possible). Besides, you always can make a backup of the boot sector first. If anything goes wrong just restore that ... formatting would destroy the data though.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: Rodney9 on November 27, 2008, 02:38:41 PM ---If I leave the 3 off /dev/sdd3 how will it know which device to use, might it format /dev/sdd1 , sdd1 is my main hard drive.
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You're confusing devices and partitions.
If /dev/sdd1 is your "main hard drive", then /dev/sdd3 is NOT your ipod, it's merely another partition on the same drive, and you've probably already broken something on your PC.
I strongly recommend following gevaerts advice at this point, as it seems you're quite confused about what you're doing.
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