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List:       linux-newbie
Subject:    Re: USB Flash Drive??
From:       beolach () juno ! com
Date:       2003-07-31 19:26:03
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I have no personal experience with memory sticks, but I think you
should be able to reformat them with any filesystem you want to,
but keep in mind that it would then be unreadable in M$.  So if
you want it to be portable at all, keep it as vfat.

For somewhat related info see:
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=69332>

Hope that helps,
Conway S. Smith

--- Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings: Just getting my feet wet with USB on a Slackware9.0,
> 2.4.20 box, and a 64mB Flash Disk "stick."
> 
> Enabling BIOS - 2.4.20 found it and loaded the necessary modules OK.
> Slick..
> 
> However - mount reports the fstype as umsdos.. I note I can also
> mount the device as msdos or vfat OK and use mcopy to manipulate
> files.. cp also works but reports an error, copying the file anyway.
> 
> I can find no information though as to if I can reformat the stick as
> ext2 or ext3..
> 
> Has anyone done this? At this point I'm afraid to try.. <grin>
> 
> TIA and Cheers,
> 
>     Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0   (2.4.18)
>                 Proprietary  Formats  Unacceptable
> .

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