Monday, June 16, 2014

external USB storage / backup

dd-wrt USB storage: ext2 or fat32 under DDWRT

fat32: 4GB file size limit how to format hard drive to fat32 in windows, under dos: (cannot use QuickFormating option /Q over 32GB), failed for 500GB

C:\>format /FS:FAT32 K:

ext3 journaling file system is not good for flash drive

How to create and use Live USB Linux LiveCD
How To - Format And Partition External Storage Device

How To Run Ubuntu in Windows 7 with VMware Player VMPlayer

---> the following is not accurate, not working

> su
> umount /dev/sdb1
> mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
> mke2fs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
> mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdb1

Windows 7 to delete all partitions including EFI
Run administrator command prompt

> diskpart
> select disk 7
> list part
> select part 1
> delete part override
> select part 2
> delete part override

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