Greetings and thanks for the comments and pointer.. The thread was interesting in that it seems some of those sticks are formatted vfat and mine umsdos; not that I'm completely clear on the relationship between all this.. <g>
"Crack the book" time again... Appreciate! Hal On 07-31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have no personal experience with memory sticks, but I think you > should be able to reformat them with any filesystem you want to, > but keep in mind that it would then be unreadable in M$. So if > you want it to be portable at all, keep it as vfat. > > For somewhat related info see: > <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=69332> > > Hope that helps, > Conway S. Smith > > --- Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings: Just getting my feet wet with USB on a Slackware9.0, > > 2.4.20 box, and a 64mB Flash Disk "stick." > > > > Enabling BIOS - 2.4.20 found it and loaded the necessary modules OK. > > Slick.. > > > > However - mount reports the fstype as umsdos.. I note I can also > > mount the device as msdos or vfat OK and use mcopy to manipulate > > files.. cp also works but reports an error, copying the file anyway. > > > > I can find no information though as to if I can reformat the stick as > > ext2 or ext3.. > > > > Has anyone done this? At this point I'm afraid to try.. <grin> > > > > TIA and Cheers, > > > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18) > > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable > > . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
