Re: Warehouse Stationary Printers and USB Sticks

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:44:37AM +1300, worik wrote:
> I have a Warehouse Stationary card and a USB stick so I should be happy
> but the machine does not respect my USB stick.
> 
> What is the best way to format a USB stick so it will be read by them?
> 
> My memory tells me I formatted the stick NTFS of VFAT which should both
> be OK, but when I mount the stick via Thunar I see it described as "type
> fuseblk".
> 
> Now I am confused.

Hi Worik,

Assuming you remember right, it sounds ("fuseblk") like you picked NTFS.

VFAT is probably a better choice for a USB key. It's extremely common,
and so probably better supported. You don't often come across USB keys
formatted with NTFS.

Cheers,
Daniel

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