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Subject: Re: A problem using "dd" on Cygwin
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:26:31 -0600
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On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 01:52 +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 2. To recreate the partitions table:
> 
>    $ cfdisk /dev/sdb              (???)
>    $ mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdb1
>    $ dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 USB_STICK
> 
> but on Cygwin it seems that mkfs.vfat does not exist (in /usr/sbin I 
> find cfdisk and other mkfs* files). Also dosfslabel does not exist, but 
> if I understand, it gives a label to the USB, so it does not seem very 
> important, now..
> 
> How can we proceed on Cygwin?

This is not an issue with dd.  The mkfs.vfat program is part of
dosfstools, which requires Linux kernel headers and therefore does not
build on Cygwin.

--
Yaakov



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