[lug] FAT32 USB drive

[David L. Willson]

I agree. Windows did the same thing to my perfect GRUB setup a few years ago. I think that may have been the last time I let Windows touch my metal, come to think of it. 

Anyway, I don't trust sticks any more than I used to trust floppies.

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Subject: Re: [lug] FAT32 USB drive

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> 
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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.... 

BQ_BEGIN

Is a piano smarter than a toaster? I think we need an official ranking in Wikipedia. 

BQ_END


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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