Please take a look here 
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/07/19/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/
Tere is a lot of interesting subjects about USB & Linux. Enjoy!

All is well when ends well!

On Nov 25, 3:17 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/
>
>
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