Usage of 32 GB USB stick DataTraveler under Fedora

[Joachim Backes]

On 04/15/2011 04:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 15:59 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have the chance to purchase a used 32 GByte USB stick of type Kingston
>> DataTraveler 200 at a low price. On the other hand, I heard from
>> difficulties to use this stick under LINUX - somebody can confirm this?
>
> I've used several Kingston sticks of various sizes with no problems at
> all, though not as large as 32GB. What problems have you heard of?
>
> poc
>

I heard that such sticks are only usable if the partitions are formatted 
in fat32; formatting the partitions in ext3 or ext4 makes such 
partitions and the total stick unusable, that means, the partitions 
can't be mounted.

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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