On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:00:48 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[email protected]> dijo:
>As a result I never use anything other than FAT or exFAT on this media >since you never know when you are going to have to force a manual >ejection and override the OS. > >But the journaling thing did not occur to me at all. That's even a >better reason not to use those filesystems on such media, wearing out >the media with excessive writes to a journal I have thousands of mp3 files that I created myself by ripping and encoding my CD collection, which has about a thousand optical discs acquired over the years. I began doing this in 2005 when I started with Linux, and at that time I used whatever flavor of ext was extant. (And note that the DMCA didn't exist back then.) Now, ext# has never had a problem with double quotes, colons and non-US-English characters in filenames, so they abound among my mp3s, e.g.: Voříšek: Symphony in D (Maazel). I use only 'folder' music players (currently Audacious), never those designed to require playlists based on tags, because everything I need to know about the piece is contained in the filename, and I like them played in alphabetical order. I could probably cut down the time required to edit all these filenames by using a GUI file manager that has bulk rename capability, but then you have to add the time required for to learn how to use the feature, and I have more interesting thing to do with my ever-shortening remaining lifespan. And I like the way they look now, So I might someday have a use for exFAT, but for now it remains unused on my computers. I would not bother with SD cards at all except for my small Latitude with removable screen, which came with only a 200GB drive. I could use a USB stick, but the Latitude will take a micro SD card that becomes invisible when inserted; one less device hanging on the side waiting for my clumsy hands to destroy it.
