From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux?? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:17:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20060325141738.GA1239@lnx2.kvinet.com> References: <20060324213842.GA1272@lnx2.kvinet.com> <200603242044.14981.david@fierbaugh.org> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603242044.14981.david@fierbaugh.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Fierbaugh Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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.. 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... -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs