I have a compact flash card formatted to FAT16. I am unable to format it to any other file system. I used GParted to format the card to ext2 for example, after I do that, the file system becomes unknown to GParted! I ran fsck on the card and it returned a dirty bit to be deleted. Do I deleted this dirty bit?
'sudo fsck /dev/sdb1' output now:
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
dosfsck 3.0.16, 01 Mar 2013, FAT32, LFN
/dev/sdb1: 1 files, 0/61366 clusters
fsck -y
will spare you the questions). BTW: If you can rune2fsck
on the partition, you do have a real filesystem and you can ignore my answer. I think you should add more details to your question though, such as a cut n' paste of the fsck command you actually ran and the output it produced.