formatting usb flash drive for jessie

[Tom Fowle]

Frank,
Thanks, never heard of the other two systems, obviously research 
required.
Tom Fowle


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:45:15AM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> 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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