questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Nils Kassube]

John R. Sowden wrote:
> Most USB sticks seem to be formatted with FAT32, probably because
> enough ms windows users have not discovered linux yet.

> I use Lijnux primarily, so I want to format the USB sticks to a Linux
> file system. Q4: Is this recommended?
> 
> Q5: Which is the best file system for USB sticks?

It depends - if you want to use the USB stick on other peoples machines 
as well, you should use a file system known to Windows because there is 
no ext2/3/4 fs support in Windows (AFAIK). However I wouldn't use FAT32 
but NTFS because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GiB. If you only want 
to use the USB stick with Linux, you might as well use ext2/3/4.

> Q6: what is the command to write the file system?

I prefer gparted for partitioning / formatting of disks.


Nils

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