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@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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