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.
Sticks are usually formatted w/FAT16 as M$ is giving people a hard time about FAT32 (which is even more inefficent.)
