Re: How to format a pen drive?

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On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 06:45 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On 11/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > How can one format a pen drive?
> > > >
> > > Just as you would any other drive with mkfs, but don't do it. Leave it
> > > as DOS formatted for comptability with Windows machines.
> > 
> > The command that I cited before works fine and the compatibility with
> > MS Windows machines is not lost.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> It is if you format it as a ext2 or ext3 drive.

True, but Paul's command formatted it as vfat. His statement above is
correct.


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