On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM, logical american <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all: > > I am trying to find a good flash drive (8 to 32 gig size) that is > formattable to ext2 (from the usual ntfs) > > By past experience I have also found that copying small files onto the > vob seems very slow. > > Has anyone had good experience with a vob that lives up to its reputed > USB 2.0 speed and can be (re)formatted to the linux world? > > Walking into your usual supermarket type electronics store only seems to > net sales hype, usually far removed from reality. >
I haven't experienced a fob that I couldn't reformat as ext2 or even LVM2 with logical partitions. They normally come pre-formated as fat(12/16/32) depending on the size. Haven't seen on that came formated as NTFS. The only ones that seem problematic are the ones that have the pre-loaded launcher software like the U3 packages. Normally these have this software in a hidden partition and require DOS or Windows software package to remove it from the device. Once removed, even those devices work well. As a side note; we have been using USB FOBs as root file systems for about two years. Only two failures in that time and reformating recovered both of them. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
