{SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] Ext2 on thumb drives

From: Robert Snyder (res03q8w@gte.net)
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 12:14:28 EDT


I personally have a 256 meg thumbdrive and can not get it to boot
zipslack with EXt3 or Reiser I personally use Riser but could not get
it boot off the thumb drive until I formated the thumb drive as
ext2.... Might have something to do with zipslack...

On Sunday, May 2, 2004, at 09:00 AM, Russell Hires wrote:

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> Why not put something like ext3 or reiser or some other journaled
> filesystem
> on it? That way, you don't have fsck problems in case you disconnect
> before
> unmounting.
>
> Russell
>
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:59 am, Paul M Foster wrote:
>> Before I do anything stupid, is it okay to change the filesystem on a
>> thumb drive to ext2 from the default vfat that comes on it?
>>
>> Paul
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