On 2010-03-27 14:02, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 00:15, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:On 2010-03-26 21:03, R. Clayton wrote:Thanks for your replies to my message. Putting a fat32 fs on the thumb drive did the trick; the block size is 4k, matching what's on the hard drive file systems.fat32 is still not recommended. Use vfat.Aren't those two names for the same thing?
Hmmm. "man mkfs" leads me to mkfs.vfat which (along with mkfs.msdos) is an alias for mkdosfs.
So, I don't know exactly *how* you'd format a device as "fat32". -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower