>From a lot of googling about I was coming to the ext2 conclusion. Out of interest why would a journaling FS wear out the drive quicker? I haven't seen comment of this in my searches. Thanks Michael Whapples On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:04 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I think that ext2 would be your best bet. The projects I'm about to > mention, can work with ext2, but aren't able to work with the journal > part of ext3. Also, you don't want a journaling file system on a flash > drive, since that would make the drive wear out faster. > > http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/ > This is free, as in free source, but I haven't used it, due to the > fact that it was still unstable beta software back when I was needing > to access ext2 partitions under the other popular os. Things may have > changed there since. > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ > This is what I personally use, and I've found it to be very stable and > reliable. It's freeware, but isn't free source, which doesn't bother > me, though I realize it might bother some. It runs under nt4, 2000, as > well as x86 versions of xp, and 2003. I don't know about vista. > > I also remember there was a set of tools which could read ext2 > partitions, and do very limited write operations. These ran under dos, > win95, 98, and me. I however don't have the url for that bookmarked, > and am unable to find it. If it's something you're interested in, then > maybe someone else will post the url for that. Hth. > > Greg > > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:46:15PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > > Hello, > > I am wondering what filesystem is best for a USB memory stick. The > > problem is that fat/fat32 is very poor on the permissions, but most > > systems can read/write it, whereas ntfs is poorly supported under Linux > > (and I am not certain about how good the permission support is) and > > things like ext3, reiserfs and other unix FSs aren't supported on > > windows. So is there mount options for fat/fat32 which improves the case > > somewhat under Linux, or might ntfs be a good compromise as most of the > > Linux systems I will be using it on will be mine so I can install > > ntfs-3g or other drivers (and windows 9x seems to have disappeared > > sufficiently that I won't have too many of those), or is there a windows > > driver for one of the unix filesystems (and if I want to be able to use > > it on more than just my machine I suppose I could make a small fat32 > > partition where I could have the driver available should a windows > > machine not have it). > > > > Thanks for any pointers to information or advice people can give. > > > > From > > Michael Whapples > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHgWyJ7s9z/XlyUyARAvHsAKClF1IQERzdKPyAJnXcUOiO4yU6RQCgiWkv > VHPWSxkua7KSwkA55i/C5pI= > =dZI1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
