Yes, I've set up a few usb sticks with first partition as fat32 for storing some files for MSwindows OS.sunburnt wrote: If media is to be used with WinBlows, then first partition should be vFAT or NTFS.
Other wise Weeners won`t see the drive unless it has Linux partition drivers installed.
The boot partition should be ext2 or ext3 whether it`s the first partition or not.
But my current usb flash is destined for Linux only. Actually I'm using ext4 but without journal. I've read that ext4 provides several performance improvements compared to ext2 and ext3 anyway, so worth using it even without journal.