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@pvmail.maricopa.edu
> <mailto: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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