[CLUE-Tech] Roaming profiles using USB flash drive on MS and Lin

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:19:12 -0500
Greg Knaddison <greg at knaddison.com> wrote:

> I started to think about putting this information on a disk that I
> take with me and then setup my gaim and Mozilla to use these locations
> for my profile information.  A floppy has the drawback of being slow
> and too small.  I'm curious about using a USB flash drive for this
> purpose.
> 
> Anyone have any experience sharing a USB flash drive between MSWindows
> and Linux desktops?  Any brand or model that people recommend?  Any
> "gotchas" in terms of how to mount it or setting up the directory
> structure so that this will work?
> 

I use a Lexar 128Mb pen drive. Mainly to transfer between my desktop and
laptop, especially when I am lazy. Also, I have downloaded from internet
to Windows xPOS to my laptop.

No real problems. The pen drive is mounted as sda1 or sdb1. Check the
article in Linux Journal a few months back for more details.

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