On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 14:04, Darksyde <m_alexander61@
> Ok, here's the deal: I bought a couple of 8 Gig flash drives from SanDisk for a great price but, of course,
> they have the proprietary s'ware ("U3"). I managed to delete part of it but there's still a few megs of stuff
> that I would like to discard also to be on the safe side. Plenty of room for storage but I want to create
> bootable drives so here goes:
Yay SanDisk... I hates them, I do... well, not exactly... but the U3
partition IS annoying...
> 1. How do I go about totally formatting the drive? As is, it won't let me set permissions which should let
> me delete anything there.
The only way to get rid of that U3 stuff is to use the SanDisk removal
utility... it's a special partition that you just can't get rid of, no
matter what... here's a link with info:
http://stackoverflo
> 2. Assuming it's possible, what file system should I reformat to (VFAT, Ext3, etc)? It will _probably_ only
> be booted from Linux machines.
I'd still go with vfat. I don't use any linux filesystems on external
drives because you just never know when you may need to hook the drive
up to something else. you could be out somewhere, at a friends, or
who knows what, and need to access one of those sticks on a windows
machine, and then what? SOL if you formatted in ext3, ext2, etc...
> 3. Obviously, with 8 G's I want to create a persistent drive so how do I add this option, or is there an .iso
> for flash drives with persistence available? I want to use Ubu 9.10 and add Ubuntu Studio (in case that's
> relevant).
look at udev... there are rules you can set in udev to make a given
drive persistent.
http://reactivated.
also, google for "persistent udev rules" or "persisten udev usb" or
something like that...
It may also be as simple as getting the UUID for the stick, and
putting an entry in fstab so that it always mounts to the same mount
point.
> Thanks,
> Mark (still in love with Felicia)
No idea who Felicia is, or why you're still in love with her, unless
you mean Felicia Day, then you and me are gonna have to have a talk,
my friend ;-) (NPH would also probably want to have a word with you,
as would Nathan Fillion)
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