formatting usb flash drive for jessie

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi Tom,

If you’re only going to use it with Linux machines I would choose jffs2, btrfs or ext4. Ext3 isn’t a good choice as it doesn’t know about solid state disks. Ext4 and jffs2 might be a bit faster than btrfs, emphasis on might,  but btrfs has so many more features that I use it for everything now. Snapshots, multiple disk support, transparent compression and deduplication  to name the big ones.

HTH
—FC


> On Nov 26, 2018, at 11:55 PM, Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> thanks Zac.
> Tom Fowle
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:36:28PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> TOm,
>> 
>> Either should probably be okay. I don???t know of any reason to prefer one over another, though I???m sure people more familiar with file systems could explain perks of both.
>> Best,
>> Zack.
>> 
>>> On Nov 26, 2018, at 8:01 PM, Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>> 
>>> using jessie v8.11 which file system should I use to format flash drives for
>>> backup? looks like ext3 or ext4 but can't find out which.
>>> Thanks
>>> Tom Fowle
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