mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.msdos

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I am a sucker for memory sticks and have several. I got the bright 
> idea to make their file system ext3 since I have only one Windows and do 
> not use it much. But yesterday I had the need.
> 
>     I got some URL data on this Ubuntu which I wanted to put on the 
> Windows in my laptop. I got the data on a memory stick from my Ubuntu 
> but when I plugged into Windows it upchucked and displayed nothing :-)
> 
>     So back to the drawing board. I used fdisk to change the partition 
> to a fat type and then un-mounted it and did a $sudo mkfs.msdos which it 
> did. Then I put it back into Ubuntu and got the email file on it and 
> then plugged it into Windows and it was happy. I was able to give 
> Windows the file and do what was needed.
> 
>     So as time permits I am going to make all my memory sticks msdos type.

Karl, you might miss out on the extra attributes assigned to files in 
ext2 file system. Like owner, rights and more advanced time information.
If I were you, I would just have one stick with FAT32.
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