questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:25:07 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 22:07 -0700, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> 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.

It's questionable, if journaling is useful at all, so IMO the only
alternative to fat32 would be ext2. Btw. if somebody wants to share an
USB stick for her Windows and Linux machines, ext file systems could be
used, too, after installing the required Windows software to access ext
file systems from Windows.

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