USB Key File System

[Karl Larsen]

Neil wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> Neil wrote:
>>     
>>>> Neil-48 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On 8/19/08, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Mumia W. wrote:
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>             
>>    Big Snip.
>>
>>
>>    Thought I would say I bought a 4 GB USB Stick and my desires were to
>> get rid of the Windows file system and put on a ext3 file system. I have
>> many Linux and no Windows systems.
>>
>>    What I did was with fdisk I made a single linux partition on the
>> devise and then un-mounted the file system and put the ext3 file system
>> on. This worked fine and now I have the entire Ubuntu 8.01 on the file
>> system.
>>
>>    All this works fine.
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> Yes, but the question here was how to format a USB key to FAT, so
> windoze is able to read &write. With Ext3 this is only possible with
> special extensions under windoze.
> To be able to use the key under both OS-ses w/o restrictions I'd advise fat.
>
>
> Neil
>
> btw: with a clean and new USB key on sdb the command to create an ext3
> file system with the name DangerBird would be:
>
> mk2fs -L DangerBird -O has_journal /dev/sdb1
>
> make an ext2 filesystem, call it DangerBird, add a journal to it (the
> only and big difference between ext2 and ext3), and put it on
> /dev/sdb1
>   
    I gave my USB Stick the name ext3 which explains a lot.

Karl


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