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I've got a USB flash drive I want to use on printers, audio equipment, and other various devices.

In my experience, most Linux is very forgiving about what partition table and FS type I use on my flash drives, but other non-linux devices aren't so nice in that regard and my flash drive is usually rejected by these things.

I realize it won't be supported by everything, but I want this flash drive to be as close as possible to factory settings as I can get.

  • What partition table is usually set on USB flash drives out of the box?
  • What FS type usually is set on USB flash drives out of the box?
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  1. I've only seen msdos partition tables (MBR) on new flash drives.
  2. It's usually FAT32. But you can only store files up to 4GB in size on this fs type. I would go for NTFS or exFAT instead, but this depends on the compatibility of your devices.
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