From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:57:41 -0400, Carlos E.R.    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-03-11 13:21, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
      
   >> WIndows should see an "unknown" file system in the existing partition(s).   
   >   
   > And helpfully offer to format it >:-P   
      
   I once experimented with putting a file system on a usb stick with mkfs.ext4   
   /dev/sdf   
   rather then creating a partition on the device like sdf1.   
      
   Made the mistake of booting windows with the usb stick plugged in. Windows   
   doesn't   
   offer to format it.  Windows overwrote the first track putting a partition   
   table on the   
   device without any prompting to do so or message indicating it had done so.   
      
   Only later when I tried to mount the device in linux did I realize there was a   
   problem.   
   Experimented some more to confirm windows was doing this.   
      
   Never let windows touch a file system that wasn't created using windows, and   
   never let it   
   work with a device without a partition table, unless it's in a floppy disk   
   drive.   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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