Re: OT: Garbage on new USB Flash Drive

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:13:59 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:48 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
MooseFET wrote:
On Jun 9, 6:56 pm, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
Don McKenzie wrote:
Or simply reformat it.
Any problem reformatting in NTFS?
Assuming that you only run Windows, no problem. Works fine.

NTFS may wear the FLASH out faster than FAT32. On an NTFS file system,
it has to write "Bill gates rules the world" into sector 666 every time
a file is changed.

If you do format as NTFS most Linux boxes can be set up to be able to
read the files on the stick. If you are brave, Linux can also write to
an NTFS device but they are great big warnings in red letters about it
not working.

If you move the drive between Windows / Mac / Linux / BSD or plan to do
so in the future, FAT16 or FAT32 are better choices.

For the sizes of devices we can get today FAT32 is the best way to go.
FAT16 requires that the "clusters" be bigger than many files are. This
can lead to a "cluster f...ile" when you try to write many small files.

What's the standard format for Linux then?

There isn't any, really. 'ext', 'ext2', 'ext3', and 'reiser' are common;
any kind of FAT partition is mountable. (FAT16, FAT32, FAT32 LBA, and
something called VFAT; I don't know the difference with VFAT.

And Linux can itself be installed on a FAT partition and work just fine;
This is probably another thing newbies don't like - Decisions, Decisions!
;-)

Cheers!
Rich

Consider VFAT as virtual FAT or versatile FAT. Reads / writes all of
the previous, very portable.

Ext is almost extinct, ext2 is very portable, i have used utilities
to read / write from M$ OS's.

ext3 is next most portable with similar / the same utilities doing the
job is M$ OS's.

Other than that you are beyond my sure knowledge.

.

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