<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/04/2012 04:54 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1354614896.2158.0.camel@anubis" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">hi, Am Freitag, den 30.11.2012, 21:18 -0700 schrieb drew einhorn: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The last time I paid attention there was a lot of voodoo involved in formatting and partitioning SD cards without adversely impacting the performance and life expectancy of the card. It dealt with block sizes and alignment of sectors, etc. Aligning the file system with the underlying SD card hardware, so that for a filesystem write doesn't require reading a physical hardware block updating the last half of it, reading the next hardware block and updating the first half of it. Do we still need to worry about this sort of thing (if so please point me to the appropriate incantations). Or, have the standard tools gotten smarter, so we don't have to worry about this stuff. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">have a look at [1] ciao oli [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Projects/FlashCardSurvey">https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Projects/FlashCardSurvey</a> </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> The link above indicates that it is not a good idea to format an SD card to ext3, and by implication, to other formats commonly used by Linux. I'd like to see a suggestion as to how to make a bootable SD card with a small Linux--perhaps Damn Small Linux, or ? Wondering if it's possible to run a Linux version on one of those little 7 inch "computers" that come with M/S CE5 Windows systems. (I don't know what cpu is in them.) --doug </body> </html>