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From: Curt on 24 Feb 2010 11:47 Is it judicious, proper, sane, or usual to run fsck periodically on a ext2 formatted usb flash drive I'm using to back-up data and with which I am currently experiencing no problems? Would it reduce or increase the longevity of the drive, or the integrity of the data, or neither of the above?
From: Bill Marcum on 24 Feb 2010 16:27 On 2010-02-24, Curt <curty(a)free.fr> wrote: > Is it judicious, proper, sane, or usual to run fsck periodically on a > ext2 formatted usb flash drive I'm using to back-up data and with which > I am currently experiencing no problems? Would it reduce or increase > the longevity of the drive, or the integrity of the data, or neither of > the above? > I don't think, unless it finds an error, fsck writes anything other than the superblock field that says when fsck was last run.
From: Robert Heller on 24 Feb 2010 17:11 At Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:27:40 -0500 Bill Marcum <marcumbill(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On 2010-02-24, Curt <curty(a)free.fr> wrote: > > Is it judicious, proper, sane, or usual to run fsck periodically on a > > ext2 formatted usb flash drive I'm using to back-up data and with which > > I am currently experiencing no problems? Would it reduce or increase > > the longevity of the drive, or the integrity of the data, or neither of > > the above? > > > I don't think, unless it finds an error, fsck writes anything other than > the superblock field that says when fsck was last run. And there is nothing stopping you from running '/sbin/e2fsck -p /dev/sd<mumble>' before each mount. Once the number of mounts / days since last fsck pass, the file system will be checked. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: The Natural Philosopher on 24 Feb 2010 18:39 Bill Marcum wrote: > On 2010-02-24, Curt <curty(a)free.fr> wrote: >> Is it judicious, proper, sane, or usual to run fsck periodically on a >> ext2 formatted usb flash drive I'm using to back-up data and with which >> I am currently experiencing no problems? Would it reduce or increase >> the longevity of the drive, or the integrity of the data, or neither of >> the above? >> > I don't think, unless it finds an error, fsck writes anything other than > the superblock field that says when fsck was last run. > with flash, any write is a bad idea.
From: Charlie Gibbs on 25 Feb 2010 01:04
In article <slrnhoam03.3pc.curty(a)einstein.electron.org>, curty(a)free.fr (Curt) writes: > Is it judicious, proper, sane, or usual to run fsck periodically on > a ext2 formatted usb flash drive I'm using to back-up data and with > which I am currently experiencing no problems? Would it reduce or > increase the longevity of the drive, or the integrity of the data, > or neither of the above? Dunno about ext2, but I have a flash drive that I regularly use to carry a lot of data back and forth between Windows boxes (a 2GB drive onto which I regularly write about 1.5GB of data). After a whlie it started getting flaky. I bought another one, but it soon got flaky as well. I've gotten into the habit of reformatting it every time I'm about to write a large amount of data - it stays reliable that way, but that might just be the crappy Windows file system. -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign! |