questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 22:07 -0700, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Q5: Which is the best file system for USB sticks?
> It depends - if you want to use the USB stick on other peoples
> machines as well, you should use a file system known to Windows
> because there is no ext2/3/4 fs support in Windows (AFAIK). However I
> wouldn't use FAT32  but NTFS because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4
> GiB. If you only want to use the USB stick with Linux, you might as
> well use ext2/3/4.

If you don't need big files, anything except NTFS is best. NTFS is
extraordinarily easy to corrupt on Unix systems, or that's been my
experience.

Regards, K.

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