On Tuesday, August 18 2009, Mike Cloaked said: > Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Indeed - my experience confirms this - as when I reformatted the key I did > > so to fat32, and then used unetbootin to place the files in this > > partition. The dd method did create an ext2 partition on the key I > > believe. > > I had my fdisk -l output from when I looked at the key before reformatting > it and the info was: > Disk /dev/sdb: 4016 MB, 4016046080 bytes > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3830 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xc8874664 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 703 719872 83 Linux > > So from memory I think type 83 is ext3? In that case it is not ideal to > have a journalled filesystem on the usbkey so the dd method is not my > filesystem preference, and I am now happier with a fat32 partition (for > memory wear reasons) Partition table type (the id in the output from fdisk) has zero bearing *at all* on what filesystem is actually on there. For filesystem type, use '/sbin/blkid /dev/sdb1' and you'll get the fstype. And ext3 (rather than ext2) is fine -- the problem with ext2 is that blkid wasn't recognizing ext2 without the module loaded. And it's been fixed for post-alpha Jeremy -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
