formatting usb flash drive for jessie

[Tom Fowle]

Didier,
The first of the articles seems accessible using lynx as far as I could go
through it before brain fuddle set in.
There are references to figures but it "APPEARS" there is probably good
enough text there to get through without seeing the figures.

Disclaimer, I am only slightly beyond a beginner at all this.
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 Use ext4, that is has practically superseded ext3.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