mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.msdos

[Bart Silverstrim]

James Gray wrote:

> FWIW, you might want to do a little research into filesystems on flash 
> media as some (like ext2/3) are not particular "nice" to them when you 
> considered the finite write cycles.  Superblocks really aren't very 
> friendly to flash media, and to date, there aren't any filesystems (that 
> I've seen anyway) that have a wide compatibility base and designed 
> specifically for use on flash drives.

Did you have a gander at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Flash_file_systems

?

-Bart