formatting usb flash drive for jessie

[Tom Fowle]

Hello Didier,
Thanks, that was what we were concluding, read the first of those articles. 
probably sufficient for my easily befuddled brain <GRIN>
Tom Fowle


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:16:24PM +0100, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 27/11/2018 05:01, Tom Fowle 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.
> 
> Use ext4, that is has practically superseded ext3.
> This article highlights the differences:
> https://opensource.com/article/17/5/introduction-ext4-filesystem
> 
> Also in the Linux kernel user???s and administrator???s guide:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/ext4.html
> If you care fore the details or suffer of insomnia:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/index.html
> 
> As an aside, please let me know if two last articles are fully
> accessible. I am interested in the answer because I consider using the
> same software in the future to provide the Slint documentation. 
> 
> To just infrequently store data in batch mode on USB stick and read it
> on occasion, you really do not anything more fancy like btrfs.
> 
> To answer Gregory whom I received the post while writing:
> On 27/11/2018 20:49, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > my understanding is that journaling file systems shouldn't be used on
> > flash media, because the journal gets constantly written to the same
> > portion of the drive, causing that space to wear out faster. Is this
> > not the case?
> 
> In this specific use case this is not an issue because the journal
> will be written very infrequently.
> 
> This being said, you could go for ext2 instead, if you don't fear the
> recovery time needed in case the computer stops during a backup for any
> reason. But really, I think you can go for ext4.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Didier