test flash drive

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday, November 26, 2010, O. Sinclair wrote:
> there is supposedly a reason for the general use of FAT32 instead of 
> NTFS on flash drives so I would check that up before going ntfs

It was always my opinion that what ever 'firmware' they use on these drives 
*only* deals with F32....    Don't think there is any other option.

The usually way to format them is   mkfs.vfat  /dev/xxx    but they usually 
come formatted.
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