[TriLUG] Flash Drive Size Limit?

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 10:50:18 EDT 2008


Interesting.  What are you doing with the 8 gb flash drive on Linux?  Using
the disk as as R/O boot disk with /tmp and other file systems on a "regular"
disk or off-loaded onto network storage?  Just curious.

Greg

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM, <ssuehle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an 8gb drive readable in Fedora 9. Formatted fat32.
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mine is readable on SLED and XP  its a 4 gig drive in fat32.
> >
> > there was a time when it stopped writeing to the drive, but I just
> > reformated it and Linux was able to do as it wanted on it.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Ron Young <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I have an acquaintance who is currently using two flash drives (a 1GB
> and
> > a
> > > 2GB) interchangeably between his windoze box and his linux box with no
> > > problems.  He has recently bought a 3GB flash drive and though it works
> > in
> > > his windoze box he is unable to use it in the linux box.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to format the 3GB flash drive to work on both OSs?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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