On 6/3/26 06:22 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi folks,
A slight dance step to the left question from the previous thread.
...makes humble confession.
I have never needed to buy a USB stick before. External USB drive,
yes. stick no.
However, after a challenging install of rockbox to my IPod classic,
all of its contents now exist in a zip archive.
I want to safely move this zip file onto something else, with the goal
of having the USB stick easily seen, think files directory, if that
makes sense.
So, is it best to live the stick unformated?
Seemed the prior thread had a member meeting with challenges by
formatting in advance.
For greatest flexibility in a Linux, or Unix environment?
Thanks,
Kare
The USB stick will probably come preformatted, based on the experience
I've had. Usually some MS format, such as NTFS or FAT32.
This lets it be a "generic" format that can be read by Windows, Mac OS
or Linux systems.
You can, of course, reformat and rebuild the file system to meet any
specific needs you may have, but generally leaving the stick as is
should work.
Bob
