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#1 2015-08-17 10:08:56
- makh
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<Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
Going through some information on internet and blogs ... Kindly inform which will be the best for the life of the usb pen? It was already formatted to Fat32.
Thankyou in advance.
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#2 2015-08-17 10:11:20
- HappyClown
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
What exactly do you mean by life? I have a USB drive formatted to fat32. The only issue with it is that it can only store up to 4GB per file.
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#3 2015-08-17 10:23:40
- makh
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
Life means that ext2 is not journaled, so life should be longer.
But I dont know much about f2fs on usb pen, as it is mainly for the SSDs.
For udf, I have no idea, but a few recommend it.
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#4 2015-08-17 10:28:03
- karol
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
ext4 w/ disabled journaling should be fine too.
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#5 2015-08-17 10:40:52
- frostschutz
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
I use ext2, and in current kernels it's all ext4 anyway (ext4 driver handles ext2/3 modes). For a stick that you only intend to use for yourself on your own Linux boxes, this is fine.
The advantage of VFAT is that it ignores the Linux ownership and permission system, so - this is the take anywhere and let anyone read and write solution.
Last time I tested UDF it was not very reliable, ymmv.
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#6 2015-08-17 12:33:32
- makh
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
@karol
Is there a difference between the ext2 and journal-disabled-ext4?
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#7 2015-08-17 12:37:48
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Re: <Solved> USB Pen Drive: Preffered format: f2fs / ext2 / udf
DDG can tell you more than I know http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/05/ext2-ext3-ext4/
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