Flash Drive questions

[Jay Ridgley]

Hi Y'all,

Well feeling inquisitive and wanting to learn a little bit more...

I have purchased a 4GB Flash Drive (SanDisk cruzer micro). It plugged 
right in and I have been able to do a little investigating...

It is formated as VFAT and contains a few directories and files (MS 
stuff). All this information shows up in the File manager task window.

I have been able to unmount it and remount it on a directory I created. 
I have been able to create a directory and delete that directory, as 
well. I was able to examine it with fdisk. All this was done via SUDO.

Now for what I want to do, I said i was feeling inquisitive...

1. How can I prevent the File Manager doing anything with it when it is 
plugged in?
2. Will it always be the same device on the system I am using it with? I 
understand that all bets are off if I change systems.
3. Can I reformat the drive with fdisk and change the file type to EXT3? 
I would like to use it to backup my home directory as well as some other 
key files.
4. Will I also be able to remove the locked MP3.exe file? Don't want it 
& don't need it either!

Warnings and caveats requested as well...

Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115

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