[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:16, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> > I have done some "bad" things to my pen drive.  I went back to windows and reformatted the pen drive. 
> 
> That was the issue here - I went to a windows box and reformatted the pendrive 
> and all is well, at least at home.  I will try again at work today.
> 
> Is it possible to format a pendrive with mkfs or similar tools?  I'd hate to 
> need a M$ box just to repair bollixed USB drives....

Sure. Just use what ever format you want to be compatible with all over.
For most devices that means fat32/vfat. mkvfat /dev/[usbdrive] should
work. You could put an ext3 or feiser or XFS or JFS partition on it.
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