ext2/3 on USB?

[Mark Jarvis]

Thanks! What tool did you use to diddle the existing partition setup? I 
have a 512MB drive that I'd like to create a small 64MB ext3 partition on.

While having both on an existing drive would be nice, if the dual thing 
isn't feasible, I suppose I can just watch & pick up a small cheapie on 
sale.

-mj-

Matt Mets wrote:

> This should work fine.  I have created ext2 partitions on my USB drive, 
> and have actually gone back and fourth between ext2 and fat32 as I 
> needed.  AFAIK, it shouldnt matter what type of filesystem you use.
> 
> On 6/2/06, *Mark Jarvis* <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu 
> <mailto:mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     FAT32/vfat is commonly used for file systems that need to be used by
>     both Windows & Linux, but it will not handle some Linux constructs like
>     symbolic links.
> 
>     Can a USB drive be formatted for a Linux specific file system such as
>     ext3 or ext2? This makes good sense if a USB drive is to be used
>     exclusively on Linux systems.
> 
>     Has anyone done this successfully? I could try on one of my USB drives,
>     but I'm chicken and don't want to take the chance of nuking it.
> 
>     -mj-
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