On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Lamar Owen <lowen at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------