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How to properly setup a working FAT32 USB stick?

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David Graser:
Martin, you ariticle is spot on.  Still valid.  Using the DFSee script option makes everything easy.

ivan:
One question to add to that - how do you get a specific drive letter the the usb stick?  In days gone by, before ArcaOS, I formatted several 32 Gb usb sticks and at the end of the formatting it asked for a drive letter which I gave and they still have which makes it easy to know information on then is on the usb.

The information here does produce a fat32 formatted usb but does not allow giving a drive letter unless I am missing something.  Is there a way of giving a drive letter to usb sticks formatter this way./?

Dave Yeo:
You can use LVM or miniLVM to give a preferred drive letter or *. The * means first available drive letter and I think is the default with removable drives. The preferred letter only gets assigned if nothing else hasn't already grabbed the letter.

ivan:
Thanks Dave.  Why is everything so much more complicated with Arca, ,are they trying to kill off OS/2?

Andi B.:

--- Quote from: ivan on March 06, 2024, 03:52:54 pm ---Thanks Dave.  Why is everything so much more complicated with Arca, ,are they trying to kill off OS/2?

--- End quote ---

Complicated compared to what? On Linux you don't have drive letters so not comparable. On Win you need to set the letter in "Datenträgerverwaltung" (English name?) too if you wanna have the same fixed one. So no difference.

What's Arca, ,? ArcaOS you mean I guess. Or does have the two commas a special meaning? I don't see any difference here compared to latest OS/2 version.

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