How to format a pen drive?

[John Wendel]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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

I've never used it, but there is a filesystem made specially for flash 
devices, JFFS2. It's available in the standard kernel. Google has more 
details.

Regards,

John