[lug] FAT32 USB drive

[geobodley at aol.com]

Android blanked my USB stick without even asking if that was something I wanted to do.   Very poor.
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Mon, May 18, 2020 7:04 am
Subject: Re: [lug] FAT32 USB drive


So, in this case, I'd've blanked the stick in Linux and stuck the stick in the piano, hoping the piano is smart enough to format it.


I did not write in my message, but I did that. Turned out, the "formatting" did not erase the partition table, causing this strange behavior (piano and Android seeing files invisible to Linux). I guess if I used the drive long enough the two things would have corrupted each other's data....
 
Is a piano smarter than a toaster? I think we need an official ranking in Wikipedia.

C'mon: a piano helps one making music, a toaster helps one making breakfast. Is music smarter than breakfast? I argue yes ;-)
But I agree we need an official list_of_electronic_devices_able_to_access_USB page on Wikipedia with a sortable table reporting (among other things) the smartness of the device.

Cheers,Davide
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