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From: Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com>
To: chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux??
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:22:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060325142224.GB1239@lnx2.kvinet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442441BB.6010702@gelm.net>

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...

-- 

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-25 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-24 21:38 Lexar Jump Drive & Linux?? Hal MacArgle
2006-03-24 19:00 ` chuck gelm
2006-03-25 14:22   ` Hal MacArgle [this message]
2006-03-24 22:43 ` Stephen Samuel
2006-03-24 19:06   ` chuck gelm
2006-03-25 14:43   ` Hal MacArgle
     [not found] ` <200603242044.14981.david@fierbaugh.org>
2006-03-25 14:17   ` Hal MacArgle

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