Jun 27, 2013 Sometimes things happen that your USB key is not showing because it is not properly formatted. This has happened to me several times and I always use a program called GParted to format my USB drives and hard drives. GParted will fix the problem and your USB will show up again under Devices or in Unity if you use Ubuntu.
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How to format and create a USB drive or pen drive that is compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7 or Mac or Linux.A file system is a method and structure of data used by an operating system, called Windows, Linux or Mac OS, for reading media files such as disks, removable drives, etc.
Following up my own question, I've formatted the USB drive in hfsplus and it works both on Macs and on my Linux box (Debian testing).One issue is that I had to turn off the journaling of the hfsplus filesystem, because (it seems) the Linux hfsplus driver doesn't support writing to the journaled hfsplus filesystem. The earliest discussion I found was from 2005 or 2006, and it's strange that the journaling support has still not been incorporated into the mainstream Linux kernels.Without journaling, I have to be extra careful when I remove the drive.
This minor annoyance aside, it works.But, I'm still open to suggestions. For example, what's the situation of Mac OS X in supporting ext3 or reiserfs?Cheers,Ryo. Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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