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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Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.
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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