On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 06:45 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > On 11/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > How can one format a pen drive? > > > > > > > Just as you would any other drive with mkfs, but don't do it. Leave it > > > as DOS formatted for comptability with Windows machines. > > > > The command that I cited before works fine and the compatibility with > > MS Windows machines is not lost. > > > > Paul > > > It is if you format it as a ext2 or ext3 drive. True, but Paul's command formatted it as vfat. His statement above is correct.
