ext2/3 on USB?

[George Toft]

I have formatted USB drives using ext3.  The bad news is it then cannot 
be formatted by Windows.  Windows will not even recognize the device 
exists.  Guess I have to reformat to fat16 to use it with windows.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
My IT Department
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Mark Jarvis 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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