Re: Filesystems on USB drives
- From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:16:58 -0600
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:58:11 GMT, Augustus SFX van Dusen staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
Can USB sticks be formatted with any filesystem?
Yes.
They seem to come by default formatted as FAT (or is it VFAT?) but I
wonder whether that's because vendors assume that the stick will be
used under Windows, or because the stick (for some reason) does not
support anything else?
USB disks usually come with one DOS partition covering their whole
capacity, usually of type 0x06 (FAT16), 0x0B (FAT32 < 8G), or 0x0C
(FAT32 > 8G). They do this because FAT is the lowest common denominator
of filesystems. Everything can read and write FAT. You can repartition
the disk however you like, and remake filesystems, but if you do that,
the disk may not be readable in any random computer.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong
http://www.brainbench.com / "He is a rhythmic movement of the
-----------------------------/ penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL
.
- References:
- Filesystems on USB drives
- From: Augustus SFX van Dusen
- Filesystems on USB drives
- Prev by Date: Re: Filesystems on USB drives
- Next by Date: Re: Hard disk data recovery.
- Previous by thread: Re: Filesystems on USB drives
- Next by thread: Passwordless root access
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
