Re: ext2 on flash memory

[alan <alan@clueserver.org>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, DervishD wrote:

>    Hi all :)
>
>    I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
> pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
> device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a
> good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...
>
>    Thanks a lot in advance :)

It depends...

Do you need to use OSes other than Linux?  FAT16/32 seems to be a pretty 
universal filesystem at this point.  You can mount ext2 on Windows, but it 
is a pain.  Not certain what it takes to mount it on OS X.

I have encountered flash drives that do not format well for anything other 
than FAT16, but they were old and small.  Hopefully that problem no longer 
exists with modern hardware.  I would format it then test the hell out of 
it before trusting it with important data.

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