From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux?? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:22:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20060325142224.GB1239@lnx2.kvinet.com> References: <20060324213842.GA1272@lnx2.kvinet.com> <442441BB.6010702@gelm.net> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <442441BB.6010702@gelm.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chuck gelm Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs