[PLUG] Partition USB storage device

[Colin Kuskie]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:42:33AM -0700, Derek Loree wrote:
> 
> It worked!  I should have known that linux would do the right things to
> make it work.  It turns out that they start with a broken partition,
> which is why cfdisk chokes.  Using fdisk, I was able to create a new
> partition table, and 4 primary partitions, one FAT12, one swap, and 2
> ext3's.  Now cfdisk can read it, the FAT12 is accessible to the M$ OS's,
> and I can mount /var, /home and swap.

Why FAT12 instead of FAT32?

Colin