mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.msdos

[James Gray]

On 09/09/2008, at 10:01 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 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

Hi Bart,

Yes, in fact I have read that page :)  As I stated above, to satisfy  
the OP's desire for compatibility between Linux and, specifically,  
Windows, none of the file systems listed on that Wikipedia article are  
particularly useful.  Still a good read, and well worth the 10 mins if  
anyone else hasn't had a look yet :)

Cheers,

James
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