Stevie135s
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Does anyone know if i can use telnet on a pc to format a drive on the Zgemma. Something like "mkfs.ext4 /media/hdd"
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Telnet format on zgemma
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kiddac
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What exactly are you trying to achieve.
There are options on the box to re-initialse the hard drive. Which will format it while it does it.
Or have your initialised it as ext4 and what to switch it back to ext3 so it is readable by windows.
In which case you can just stick it in a windows machine and run cmd prompt.
In windows, open up command prompt with Administrator privileges
1. Go in Start > write “cmd” > right-click the Windows Command Prompt and choose to run it as an Administrator.
2. At the prompt, enter “DISKPART” to launch Microsoft’s disk management utility. It will take a second until it loads and when ready it will read “DISKPART>”.
3. Type in “list disk” to show a list of all disk drives. If your USB key is plugged into your PC, it should be listed here, along with other drives. Note the USB key’s disk number – you can pick it out by looking at the disk capacity.
4. Type “select disk n" (whatever is your USB disk number in place of "n").
5. Type “clean” for the utility to clean the disk, which DiskPart will confirm.
6. Create a new partition by entering “create partition primary”.
7. Choose this partition with “select partition 1", and then mark it as active by typing “active”.
8. Format the key by inputting “format fs=fat32". This should take a few minutes, and DiskPart will display a progress percentage.
9. Lastly, type “assign” to give this USB key a drive letter and “exit” to exit DiskPart.
There are options on the box to re-initialse the hard drive. Which will format it while it does it.
Or have your initialised it as ext4 and what to switch it back to ext3 so it is readable by windows.
In which case you can just stick it in a windows machine and run cmd prompt.
In windows, open up command prompt with Administrator privileges
1. Go in Start > write “cmd” > right-click the Windows Command Prompt and choose to run it as an Administrator.
2. At the prompt, enter “DISKPART” to launch Microsoft’s disk management utility. It will take a second until it loads and when ready it will read “DISKPART>”.
3. Type in “list disk” to show a list of all disk drives. If your USB key is plugged into your PC, it should be listed here, along with other drives. Note the USB key’s disk number – you can pick it out by looking at the disk capacity.
4. Type “select disk n" (whatever is your USB disk number in place of "n").
5. Type “clean” for the utility to clean the disk, which DiskPart will confirm.
6. Create a new partition by entering “create partition primary”.
7. Choose this partition with “select partition 1", and then mark it as active by typing “active”.
8. Format the key by inputting “format fs=fat32". This should take a few minutes, and DiskPart will display a progress percentage.
9. Lastly, type “assign” to give this USB key a drive letter and “exit” to exit DiskPart.
Stevie135s
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If i put an micro SDCard in the zgemma, do i need to initialize it to format it to Ext4 ? Can't i just mount it and telnet the format command ?
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