Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick
On Fri 21 Oct 2016 at 01:11:10 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Can someone tell me what partition type I should select in cfdisk (or
> what better tool I should use to partition) and what command I should
> use to create a file system on the stick using my Jessie box, that I can
> then write some files to the stick from the Jessie box and expect my
> friend's MacBook to be able to read them? (text files, so if it can read
> the file system we are golden).
I have had no problem with FAT16 and 'mkfs.vfat <partition>' on Linux
systems. From a little reading the Macs seem have a native utility
which prefers FAT32, so this could be the better option. Whatever, you
choose you will need to test as widely as you can.
--
Brian.
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