Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes?
>> But still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the
>> media.
>
> Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the
> internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an e
"Masatran / Deepak, R." writes:
> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop
> to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the
> permissions, so I am not able to acc
> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes? But
> still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the media.
Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the
internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an expected lifetime of
10-writes,
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Why ext2 rather than ext3?
>> I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to
>> say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives
>> because of the reduced number of writes to disk.
>
> The extra writes of ext3 have 2 consequen
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:15:33AM +, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com)
> wrote:
> > Which versions of Windows can read ext2?
>
> Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT definitely. Not sure about Vista.
>
> Google for explore2fs.
>
Found it,
2009/3/12 Bob Cox :
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com)
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote:
>> > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
>> > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
>> Why ext2 rather than ext3?
> I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to
> say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives
> because of the reduced number of writes to disk.
The extra writes of ext3 have 2 consequences:
1 - slow things down
2 - w
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:04:27 -0400, Stefan Monnier
(monn...@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote:
> >> > Why so many difficult answers?
> >> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your
>
> Why ext2 rather than ext3?
I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it
>> > Why so many difficult answers?
>> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your
Why ext2 rather than ext3?
> Google for explore2fs.
It claims to support both ext2 and ext3.
Stefan
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Mike McClain wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote:
Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my
Why so many difficult answe
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 22:14:59 -0700, Mike McClain (mike.j...@nethere.com)
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote:
> > Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
> > >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> > >one Ext3 partition. Th
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote:
> Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
> >Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> >one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my
> Why so many difficult answers?
> If you nor
Sam Leon wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Masatran / Deepak, R.:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32
partition, and
one Ext3 partition.
Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At l
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:19:09AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> Let's us all start a movement, an exFat on Linux movement.
exFAT is written by a known patent troll who is already suing a Linux
company for a patent that may or may not be valid.
I'd stay away from exFAT.
http://lwn.net/Articles
Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop
to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the
permissions, so I am not able to access the dat
>> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
>> one Ext3 partition.
> Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
> drives probably don't have smart wear levelling.
ext3 is not significantly different in this respect from most other FSes
(inc
Sam Leon wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Masatran / Deepak, R.:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32
partition, and
one Ext3 partition.
Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At l
Mark Allums wrote:
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Masatran / Deepak, R.:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32
partition, and
one Ext3 partition.
Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Masatran / Deepak, R.:
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
one Ext3 partition.
Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
drives probably don't
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Masatran / Deepak, R.:
> >
> > Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> > one Ext3 partition.
>
> Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
> drives probably don't have sma
Masatran / Deepak, R.:
>
> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
> one Ext3 partition.
Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
drives probably don't have smart wear levelling.
> The problem is that when I transfer files from my lapto
Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop
to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the
permissions, so I am not able to access the data. How can I fix this?
Both co
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