may i suggest you to use ftp or web upload to save your files?because i do the same to keep my backups.
cheers On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Iron_Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > 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/ > > > -- Best Regards, Nanda Linn Aung http://infomm.com My WHB web hosting http://infomm.com/z-whb.php --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
