ext2/3 on USB?

[Mark Jarvis]

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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