[kwlug-disc] udisksd slow to mount USB stick

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Fri Mar 25 01:30:14 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:03:16PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > Now that you got it all zero'ed out, try creating FAT filesystem on the
> > whole /dev/sdb, rather than /dev/sdb1.
> 
> You mean no partitioning at all?
> 
> Meaning not doing anything to it with fdisk?

Yes, like
    mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb
which is what Windows (7 or 10, not sure which) does on "removeable".
Or, format it on Windows.  I found it interesting, because I thought
Windows always insist on MBR.
-- 
William





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