Re: How to format a pen drive?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net> wrote:
> > > How can one format a pen drive?
> > >
> > Just as you would any other drive with mkfs, but don't do it. Leave it
> > as DOS formatted for comptability with Windows machines.
> 
> The command that I cited before works fine and the compatibility with
> MS Windows machines is not lost.
> 
> Paul
> 
It is if you format it as a ext2 or ext3 drive.
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