Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux??

[Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com>]

On 03-24, David Fierbaugh wrote:
> I second what has been said about using them with vfat file system. I have a 
> 16Mb that must be at least 4 1/2 years old. It's still going fine.
> 
> Most people keep these as vfat, unless there's a really god reason not to 
> (like using with NSLU2 hacked to run off a flash drive, now that's fun.)
> 
> Flash drives are EXTRAORDINARILY resilient. I've seen photos off of a flash 
> card from a camera which was caught (and destroyed) in an explosion.
> 
> I've seen them destroyed by fluid, but the most common cause of failure is 
> good old file system corruption from miscellaneous cause or human error.
> 
> I'd suggest formating it as vfat, and take a look at it with fsck.vfat or 
> badblocks.

	Thanks all for your input.. Consensus is to use it vfat to
stay out of trouble with Lexar.. <grin> It seems to be AOK now except
that fsck.vfat returns an Error 2, but 'dosfsck -tvr /dev/sda1' gives
it a clean bill of health.. I didn't try badblocks, but set it up as
Dos drive F: so we're in business again till the next crisis... 

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    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1   (2.4.29)
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