[mdlug] ext2 on USB drive?

Michael Rudas audiotech50 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 23:53:26 EST 2008


--- Stan Green wrote:
> I picked up a 8GB USB drive at Micro Center. It is one of their store brand
> devices. When I went to use it I realized it is formated FAT32 which has a
> 4GB file size limit.
> Has anyone formated a USB drive as ext2?

Why ext2 instead of ext3?  As a journaled file system, ext3 should be
more robust -- this might be a useful feature for a flash drive.

~~ Mikey



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