The formatting is the part I am having trouble with. It seems like the commands that I am looking for, aren't available in the standard install.
The USB stick is only used as a backup of important files for my Linux box. On Nov 24, 7:57 pm, "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Iron_Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to figure out how to format my USB pen drive as an ext3 > > partition. I am using Fedora 9. I tried googling to find a solution, > > but most of what I get back wasn't very useful. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > The USB stick is just a device like a hard drive, located at /dev/usb0 > or /dev/sdc1 or something like that. > > Format it like you would a normal hard drive (though a vfat format > makes it much more cross-platform, as only Linux and other UNIX > variants read ext3 without extensive retrofitting). > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman| John > 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/|http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
