Re: [SLUG] Ext2 on thumb drives

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 06:08:40 EDT


On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 01:59, 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?

I believe that the only change you'd need is to add the 'noatime' option
to the fstab. Otherwise, I understand that it works fine as a storage
volume. If you'd like to boot from it then there may be a couple other
things. I remember reading something from either the Knoppix or Mandrake
Move documentation that the computer sees it as a huge floppy.

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