Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux??

Hal MacArgle
2006-03-25T14:22:24Z

On 03-24, chuck gelm wrote:
> Hi, Hal:
>
> I have two (128MB) USB (flash,thumb) drives and usually
> use them as 'vfat' formatted systems. They are partially
> linux compatible, because 'vfat' does not carry as many
> permissions as 'ext2' does. I'm guessing that all 'full'
> linux distributions support 'vfat' file systems by default.
> So, these USB drives are basically linux compatible.
> I looked in my filesystem list (/usr/src/linux/fs/) and see
> over 25 filesystems. I have even heard of some of them:
> cramfs, ext3, fat, jffs, minnix, msdos, ramfs, reiserfs,...
>
> You could have formatted them 'vfat' with linux. :-|
>
> Chuck

I have done that and checked it with dosfsck as AOK..
However, as mentioned, fsck returns an Error 2, but I wont worry
about it for now...