--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 5:10 AM > Marcel Rieux > >> OTOH, when I formatted, I wasn't so sure that ext3 > was much use on a > >> USB drive. I still don't know. > > Aaron Konstam: > > In it is not muh use if you ever want to put it in a > Wiindws machine. > > There are drivers to read ext3 on Windows. If you use > both systems, > you'll have to weigh up which is the most convenient. > Native file > systems on Linux, which supports your normal permissions > and ownership > file details. Or a pathetic-featured file system that > can be easily > read by many different systems. > > -- This message was sent Monday, December 21, 2009 5:10 AM, kept the headers intact. Today is December 25, 2009, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good late fedora list reply :) <quote> or a pathetic-featured file system that can be easily read by many different systems. </quote> I like this quote, but I have seen systems which this is not TRUE :(, I help my students clean out their windows machines, and they had to force shutdown(Pressing and holding power button, machine was not responding had AV virus/spyware/trojan(you name it) ) and the NTFS partition was cleanly unmounted and therefore not easily read :( But I still like your quote :) Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines