John Culleton wrote:
> Old Man <bill@witch.lan> wrote in message news:<X7KdnXYHtrmJ3UrdRVn_iw@comcast.com>...
>
>>John Culleton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?
>>>
>>
>>Jack's right. fat16. My mistake.
>
>
> Following a specific recommendation I bought a PQI 128MB Drive from
> Newegg.com for $31 including shipping. It seems to work just fine. It
> came preformatted with one fat16 partition. Slackware and Knoppix both
> recognize it as drive
> /dev/sda. Mounting /dev/sda1 is trivial.
>
> I want to release a package of software to the mutitudes on a Slax or
> Knoppix type distro. The hangup is read/write space for those
> afflicted with recent versions of windows, where the proporietary NTFS
> format is the norm. The pen drive gets around that problem nicely and
> at low cost.
>
> Mission accomplished. Thanks everybody.
>
> John Culleton

I reformatted my SanDisk Cruzer to a VFAT format. Allows me to have a
greater smaller file count.

Now, if I didn't have to plug it into a 'Doze box, I may try, someday,
an ext2 or ext3 format on the thing.

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