question on formating USB Drive in Kubuntu

[Tez]

James Gray wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>   
>> "Jonathan Jesse" <jjesse at iserv.net> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> Ok I am slowly moving completely over to Linux on my laptop for work
>>> and need to run a bunch of Virtual Machines so I have an 120 gig USB
>>> 2.0 drive that is currently formatted in NTFS.  How do delete
>>> everything that is on it and format it to ext3 or a better filesystem
>>> for running such a large USB drive on?
>>>       
>> Well, pretty easily:
>>
>>   sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdXXX  # replace XXX with your device node
>>     
>
> I'd caution against using a journaling file system 
> (ext3/reiserfs/jfs/xfs) on a USB drive as these formats tend to require 
> a bit more I/O bandwidth than their non-journaling cousins 
> (ext3/vfat/etc).  When you're operating on a bandwidth-challenged bus 
> (like USB) the difference between journaling and not-journaling can be 
> quite noticeable.
>
> If you REALLY need the journal, then by all means use it...but be aware 
> of the overheads.
>
> YYMV,
>
> James
>
>   
Yes, that's a point, but you can still use ext2 (same as ext3, but 
without journal), just remove the '-j' from the command.

Tez