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).
>
> --
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