8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Dec 27 01:00:45 UTC 2009


jdow wrote:
> From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, 2009/December/25 18:28
> 
>> Tim:
>>>> There are drivers to read ext3 on Windows.  If you use both systems,
>>>> you'll have to weigh up which is the most convenient.  Native file
>>>> systems on Linux, which supports your normal permissions and
>>>> ownership file details.  Or a pathetic-featured file system that
>>>> can be easily read by many different systems.
>>
>>
>> Antonio Olivares:
>>> <quote>
>>> or a pathetic-featured file system that can be easily read by many
>>> different systems.
>>> </quote>
>>>  
>>> I like this quote, but I have seen systems which this is not TRUE :(,
>>> I help my students clean out their windows machines, and they had to
>>> force shutdown(Pressing and holding power button, machine was not
>>> responding had AV virus/spyware/trojan(you name it) ) and the NTFS
>>> partition was cleanly unmounted and therefore not easily read :(
>>
>> I have to point out that the /quite universal pathetic file system/ is
>> FAT, not NTFS.  Though both seem designed to support the:
>>
>>   Windows deniable plausibility error:
>>   I cannot recall the contents of that file.
>>
>> There are a great many number of systems, that one way or another, can
>> easily work with the FAT file system.  NTFS support is still limited.
> 
> There is a reason that FAT became the standard for flash memory drives
> rather than the others. It writes to the drive one heck of a lot less
> often than NTFX or ext(whatever). This can be important on a device with
> lifetime write limitations.
> 
You are exactly correct. Which is why I usually use either ext2 or put the 
journal file on another file system.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
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