This should work fine.&nbsp; I have created ext2 partitions on my USB drive, and have actually gone back and fourth between ext2 and fat32 as I needed.&nbsp; AFAIK, it shouldnt matter what type of filesystem you use.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Jarvis</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu">mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>FAT32/vfat is commonly used for file systems that need to be used by<br>both Windows &amp; Linux, but it will not handle some Linux constructs like<br>symbolic links.<br><br>Can a USB drive be formatted for a Linux specific file system such as
<br>ext3 or ext2? This makes good sense if a USB drive is to be used<br>exclusively on Linux systems.<br><br>Has anyone done this successfully? I could try on one of my USB drives,<br>but I'm chicken and don't want to take the chance of nuking it.
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