On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to format a USB drive?
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 01:55:35 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Well, I haven't thought about it. I use both frequently. At one point I thought about several partitions on the USB drive, so I could say no.
But you can have multiple partitions on a USB flash drive, too. They're not necessarily limited to one partition.
Of course you can. I formatted a 16GB USB stick with different partitions.
One thing I noticed, was plugging in the USB drive with it formatted as a default factory drive - Fat32 IIRC - made it automount after plugging it into the USB port. Then I was writing some data to it from Midnight Commander, and got tons of 'Network Error' messages, as mc was trying to write to the drive??
So I dumped the Fat32 partition, and reformatted it to ext2 and ext3 partitions.
Anyone else noticed those sorts of errors writing to a USB flash drive?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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