john@wexfordpress.com (John Culleton) writes:
> looking for recommendations for USB Pen drives in the 32MB and up
> range that are known to work well with Slackware.

USB memory storage works well with all Linux distros.

Does it have to be physically small like a pen drive? Just get the
largest memory capacity you can afford.

Or does it just have to be portable from one USB machine to
another? What I did was to get a compact-flash card reader
plus several compact-flash cards; a couple of 256MB and a 1GB. The
CF cards also have the advantage of being usable in both my MP3
player and my digital camera. Maybe it's a bit bulkier, but it's
got tons of flexibility.

> Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?

I think it depends on the capacity. I mainly see FAT16.

Jack
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