[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Pen Drives

[Chris Cox]

Tom Hoover wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:11:54PM -0600, Ed Coates wrote:
> 
>>I've been looking at these things, and I wonder if they can be used in
>>Linux.  I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with the Pen
>>Drives.  How are they used?  Do you put a filesystem on them to store
>>information on them?  
> 
> 
> I use one all of the time...works fine.  They normally come preformatted
> with a FAT filesystem, so I just mount them using vfat as the filesystem
> type (this allows them to also be used on a Windows machine, of which we
> still have many at work). 

There are a few USB pen drives that DO NOT WORK well at all with
Linux... so I do recommend doing some research.  I just had someone
in class who bought one recently and after doing some googling we
determined it was a lemon with regards to Linux.... that class is
over, and I don't remember the brand... it started with an "A"..
that's about all I remember.