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 Use ext4, that is has practically superseded ext3.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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
