Fair criticism, Phillip.

Because I feel confident with these tools, I was just stating the
configuration dictated through GParted (and asserting I was using the
correct steps). However, without explaining the steps, you're not to
know that I'm informed and doing the right thing, and I'm not helping
you by leaving out the detail.

For reference, the exact same steps on a different model of thumb drive
of the same size worked perfectly to create appropriate filesystems.

On the problem memory stick, I did indeed successfully create a new
partition table after zeroing the disk, and then went through a sequence
of adding new partitions one by one, (one 128Mb swap, followed by the
remainder of the 1GB disk as ext3) and the behaviour I'm confused by is
to see GParted accept my request to create and then to format that ext3
partition, but every time, after apparently reporting success and
forcing a reload of the view, the thumb drive shows the partition as
'unknown' rather than showing it as ext3. I'll keep experimenting and
report back with more detailed steps and feedback when I can articulate
the problem better.

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