[Linux4christians] File System for USB Flash Drive

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:13 +0800, Alan Trick wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 18:57 -0400, Don Bedsole wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > I have a 1 GB USB flash drive. It came with a FAT/FAT16 file system. If I 
> > wanted to put a Linux file system on it, which one would be best? Would using 
> > some file systems result in more wear and tear on the drive than others? 
> > Thanks.
> 
> ext2, but you might be better off leaving fat on there. Although fat is
> slow and missing many features, it's good for things like floppy disks
> and flash drives because it reduces the amount of writing that needs to
> be done to the disk (you don't have to update last-accessed dates and
> such) which while increase it's lifetime. And the extra features
> provided with a real file-system aren't really much use on a flash
> drive.

My 512 MB flash drive does not work with fat32 or ext2 - it only works
with fat16. I'm not sure why, but it refuses to mount if any other
filesystem is on it.