I have no personal experience with memory sticks, but I think you should be able to reformat them with any filesystem you want to, but keep in mind that it would then be unreadable in M$. So if you want it to be portable at all, keep it as vfat.
For somewhat related info see: <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=69332> Hope that helps, Conway S. Smith --- Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings: Just getting my feet wet with USB on a Slackware9.0, > 2.4.20 box, and a 64mB Flash Disk "stick." > > Enabling BIOS - 2.4.20 found it and loaded the necessary modules OK. > Slick.. > > However - mount reports the fstype as umsdos.. I note I can also > mount the device as msdos or vfat OK and use mcopy to manipulate > files.. cp also works but reports an error, copying the file anyway. > > I can find no information though as to if I can reformat the stick as > ext2 or ext3.. > > Has anyone done this? At this point I'm afraid to try.. <grin> > > TIA and Cheers, > > Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18) > Proprietary Formats Unacceptable > . ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
