Unable to update my machine

[Hal Murray]

Mitch said:

> fdisk + mkdosfs is a mistake-prone combination.

That's probably what I screwed up ages ago.

It might help if the wiki section had an example of something known to work - 
that is take a USB flash drive in unknown state, erase everything, and set it 
to a good state.

The corresponding mount command would probably be handy too.

I'm probably assuming that everybody is using a RedHat style linux, or 
something close enough.  It may be worth recording the distribution (and 
version) just in case that matters.

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