Mike McCarty wrote:
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.
And both of these will result in premature wearout.
Mike
I've never used it, but there is a filesystem made specially for flash
devices, JFFS2. It's available in the standard kernel. Google has more
details.
Regards,
John
