Re: How to format a pen drive?

Mike McCarty wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:15 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:

On 11/5/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How can one format a pen drive?


Just as you would any other drive with mkfs, but don't do it. Leave it
as DOS formatted for comptability with Windows machines.

The command that I cited before works fine and the compatibility with
MS Windows machines is not lost.

Paul


It is if you format it as a ext2 or ext3 drive.

And both of these will result in premature wearout.

Mike

I've never used it, but there is a filesystem made specially for flash devices, JFFS2. It's available in the standard kernel. Google has more details.

Regards,

John

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