From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:07:19 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] can i in u-boot partition a device and format it in fat ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130130150719.B5A9E200108@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear "Altunbas Sabri (DC-IA/EAH2)", In message you wrote: > > i had a look at the u-boot cmd's. I can read/write a file from/to a dos par > tition but I didn't find a command for partitioning and formatting a device. No, you cannot (at least not unless you are willing to manually build the boot sector using "mw" commands and then writing it to the drive). Boot an OS for this purpose... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra