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authorShipwreckt <shipwreckt@mailfence.com>2025-02-16 20:50:51 +0000
committerShipwreckt <shipwreckt@mailfence.com>2025-02-16 20:50:51 +0000
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<p>Give fdisk a minute to write the new partition to the USB.</p><hr>
- <p>3) Now is the time to give that partition a file system. You should look into this beforehand to see what file system you want, but I will use ext4 because it was made for Linux use.</p>
+ <p>3) Now is the time to give that partition a file system. You should look into this beforehand to see what file system you want, but I will use fat32 because it works with all operating systems.</p>
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- <p>sudo mkfs.ext4 -L "Backup-USB" /dev/sdXx</p>
+ <p>sudo mkfs.fat -F 32 -n "Backup-USB" /dev/sdXx</p>
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<p>The small x represents the number of the partition; the -L flag is used to give the USB stick a name.</p><hr>