071020 b.n. wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs >> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? >> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. >> It won't affect today's installation job, >> but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. > I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. > What filesystem do you use on them?
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
