Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux??

Hal MacArgle
2006-03-25T14:17:38Z

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...