Access a USB drive from Linux and Windows

From: R. Hixon (erhixon_at_swbell.net)
Date: 11/13/03

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    Hi,
       I want to be able to attach a USB drive to Red Hat Linux 8.3 and
    write files to it and then be able to take the USB drive to a Windows
    machine and read the files. I have a USB drive and I've been trying
    to achieve this goal without success. The drive works because I have
    been able to access it from Windows by totally reformatting it. I
    tried formatting a 31 MB partition on partition 1 using Windows and
    then taking it to Linux. Linux wouldn't let me mount the volume.
    Windows wouldn't let me partition the entire drive as a FAT partition.
     I tried using Linux fdisk and mkfs -t msdos /dev/sda1. That resulted
    in error "Attempting to create a too large file system". Any ideas?

    R. Hixon

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