On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:25:04 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100 > Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If a reformatted USB stick on Debian isn't "maximally compatible" I > > could understand the steering towards using Windows for the operation. > > I don't have Windows but many do. They are the ones to test and > > report. > > And I do. My server, home workstation and netbook run Debian, my > working laptop and my wife's workstation run Windows, as do all of my > clients. My experience is that Windows is sometimes fussy about > Linux-formatted media, hence my advice.
I acknowledge your experience and expertise and recognise its relevance to the OP's question. Maybe Debian cannot ever get it right when it comes to this interworking with other filesystems. -- Brian.
