mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.msdos

[Mike McMullin]

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 09:09 -0600, 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 :-)

  There are freeware programs that allow you to view ext2/3 file systems
in windows.

>     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
> 
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> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
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