FAT16??? I thought (based on absolutely NO evidence) that my USB drives
were FAT32, but Disk Management under Control Panel labels my spinning
rust-coated data partitions as FAT32 and the USB drives as plain FAT.
I therefore assume that they must be the old FAT16.
My PartitionMagic 8.0 doesn't recognize USB drives at all. Pity.
-mj-
George Toft wrote:
> 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
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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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