[Nottingham] USB memory sticks

[David Bottrill]

Johannes Kling said:
> Hello,
>
>> Anyone use a USB storage dongle with Linux?  Just wondering if any
>> particular brand should be favoured or avoided, or are they all much
>> of a muchness?
>
> I've not had any problems with flash sticks, flash MP3 players and
> similar, though I did have problems with one USB hard drive enclosure,
> though, that didn't (and was known not to) work in Linux.
>
The only problems I've had have been with Sony USB sticks, their default
partioning seems a bit strange causing problems mounting under Linux. I
just created a new partition table with fdisk and all was fine.

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