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I was wondering if I can take a 256Gb uSD chip, and use gparted to refomat the drive table to msdos so i can use ext3. Or is this a job for dd, then gpart for msdos table?
TIA
In my experience, gparted can be used to create a new partition table following which new partitions can be created.
Wipes the old partition table if it exists.
But I've never tried this with an sd card.
I have used Gparted to do this on SD cards.
Use it like you would on any drive. Just be sure the SD card is what you selected to work on.
Make new partition table (type msdos). This totally deletes everything on it.
Partition and format as you like.
Note:
On a very new computer with UEFI bios.
To see the SD card as a boot-able drive. It may need to have a gpt type partition table.
Had a Puppy version on it and was using it to boot with.