USB Flash Memory HOWTO

USB Flash Memory HOWTO

Niko Sauer

Unit of Advanced Study
University of Pretoria, South Africa


           
       

Revision History
Revision 0.062004-03-10ns
Added section on Linux-2.6.
Revision 0.052003-12-26ejh
Technical review.
Revision 0.04 2003-12-11ns
Revision 0.03 2003-12-02 ejh
Technical review.
Revision 0.02 2003-10-30 ns
Changed 2003-11-20

Abstract

This document describes procedures for installing USB Flash Memory devices and the way of formatting them for various file systems such as vfat (the way they usually come) and ext2 (the way they fit in better with Linux). It is also described how to partition the device in two sections with different file types.