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From: GangGreene on 22 Dec 2009 18:07
Joe Beanfish wrote:

> GangGreene wrote:
>> Stefan Patric wrote:
>>
>> [putolin]
>>
>>>> Use gparted to reformat it to EXT3. There is no reason to ever use
>>>> FAT16, if it's important to you to be able to plug it into a Windows
>>>> box then format it to FAT32, but EXT3 is a much better file system.
>>>> Linux will mount the stick with just about any file system but there is
>>>> no reason to use an inefficient one if you don't have to.
>>> Also, you won't need journaling. So, don't use the -j option when
>>> formatting the USB stick to ext3.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That would be formatting the stick to ext2... not ext3
>
> Actually a usb stick might be one of the smarter places to use
> a journal since it may be yanked out at any time, possibly without
> unmounting. The journal will reduce the chances of corruption and loss.
> Not that I'm in any way suggesting that removal with unmounting is ok.

It depends, if you are using it for a backup infrequenly then ext3 is ok,
but if your running an OS which writes very frequently thyen you have the
potentical to ruin the usb drive due to too many writes.


From: Darren Salt on 25 Dec 2009 10:43
I demand that Charlie Gibbs may or may not have written...

[snip]
> This might be a bit off-topic, but has anyone noticed reliability problems
> when adding large files to a FAT16-formatted memory stick? I have a 2GB
> stick which I use to back up files from my Windows system at work; I've
> found that if I write a lot more data (several hundred megabytes) to a
> partially filled stick from a Windows box, some of the files will often
> encounter strange (and unrecoverable) errors when I try to read them back.

Are you *sure* that the actual capacity of the stick is what's claimed?

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