Re: USB keys to the gate of madness

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From: H.Merijn Brand
Subject: Re: USB keys to the gate of madness
Date: 16:59 on 28 Oct 2006
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:46:55 -0500 (CDT), peter@xxxxxxx.xxx (Peter da Silva)
wrote:

> > I wish this sad state of affairs were universally true, because last time I 
> > needed them to work, 2 out of 3 USB sticks used a different file system
> 
> I have never seen a memory stick shipped with anything but FAT or FAT32.
> 
> What someone else puts on them is a different ball of tentacles.

Formatting it reiserfs or ext3 is a start to make data `encrypted' for
Windows users :)


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