I always format mine fat32 since I use them under both windows and unix and really don't care about permitions all that much on these devices. On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:46:15PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > Hello, > I am wondering what filesystem is best for a USB memory stick. The > problem is that fat/fat32 is very poor on the permissions, but most > systems can read/write it, whereas ntfs is poorly supported under Linux > (and I am not certain about how good the permission support is) and > things like ext3, reiserfs and other unix FSs aren't supported on > windows. So is there mount options for fat/fat32 which improves the case > somewhat under Linux, or might ntfs be a good compromise as most of the > Linux systems I will be using it on will be mine so I can install > ntfs-3g or other drivers (and windows 9x seems to have disappeared > sufficiently that I won't have too many of those), or is there a windows > driver for one of the unix filesystems (and if I want to be able to use > it on more than just my machine I suppose I could make a small fat32 > partition where I could have the driver available should a windows > machine not have it). > > Thanks for any pointers to information or advice people can give. > > From > Michael Whapples > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. -- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a