On 1/30/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 05:19:16PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On 1/29/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I thought that might be the problem. Can they be reformatted?
> > >
> >
> > Sure. /sbin/fdisk # to change the partition table.
> > /sbin/mke2fs # to re"format".
> >
> > carl
>
> That worked. Any reason to make them ext3 (wasting journal space)
> instead of ext2?
>
> I have a small one I want to use for carrying a GPG key/keyring.
I can think of a few reasons for not using ext3 on a memory stick drive.
It's small enough that speed of fsck is not a problem.
It's small enough that you don't want to give up the extra space for
the journal.
The memory technology is limited as to the number of writes before
something breaks. So you don't want to be updating a journal file
every few seconds.
carl
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