[ubuntu-in] Re Format Pen dirves in Ubuntu (heading edited)

[Suraj N. Kurapati]

ramnarayan.k at gmail.com wrote:
> make sure you choose the right file system (can never remember if
> pendrives are fat32 or fat16 )

The choice depends on the size of the pendrive. FAT16 is capable of
addressing 2^16 bytes (64 KiB) whereas FAT32 is capable of
addressing 2^32 bytes (4 GiB).

If you happen to own a pendrive with capacity greater than 4 GiB,
then you will have to use FAT64 (AFAIK this does not yet exist) or
another file system like ext2 that does not suffer from this problem.

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