I know how to make a live persistent usb on Ubuntu using mkusb, but it formats the usbdata partition, the partition that is actually read by other laptops, as NTFS. Is there a way or another tool to format that specific partition into something more widely usable such as MS-DOS?
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Mkusb Persistent USB, Reformat usbdata Partition to FAT32
Use the toram option of mkusb to boot to RAM. Then unmount the USB, (unplug and replug it). Open GParted, select the USB drive, right click the NTFS partition and format it to FAT32.
Fat32 is probably what you call MS-DOS. It has a file size limit of 4GB.
Windows and Linux can use NTFS but OSX can not. Even OSX can use FAT32.
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