How to format a pen drive?

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 9 22:54:45 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
>>On 11/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at 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.

And both of these will result in premature wearout.

Mike
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