looking for recommendations for USB Pen drives in the 32MB and up
range that are known to work well with Slackware.

Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?


TNX

John Culleton

John Culleton wrote:

> looking for recommendations for USB Pen drives in the 32MB and up
> range that are known to work well with Slackware.

Sandisk Cruzer works well.

>
> Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?

Yes. I believe most are preformatted that way.

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Old Man

john@wexfordpress.com (John Culleton) writes:
> looking for recommendations for USB Pen drives in the 32MB and up
> range that are known to work well with Slackware.

USB memory storage works well with all Linux distros.

Does it have to be physically small like a pen drive? Just get the
largest memory capacity you can afford.

Or does it just have to be portable from one USB machine to
another? What I did was to get a compact-flash card reader
plus several compact-flash cards; a couple of 256MB and a 1GB. The
CF cards also have the advantage of being usable in both my MP3
player and my digital camera. Maybe it's a bit bulkier, but it's
got tons of flexibility.

> Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?

I think it depends on the capacity. I mainly see FAT16.

Jack
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First, they fear you. Then they match you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they ignore you. Then you lose.

John Culleton wrote:

> Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?
>
Jack's right. fat16. My mistake.

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Old Man

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:56:18 -0400, Old Man mumbled:
>
>
> John Culleton wrote:
>
>> looking for recommendations for USB Pen drives in the 32MB and up
>> range that are known to work well with Slackware.
>
> Sandisk Cruzer works well.
>

I second that. I also have 3 old (USB 1) "Pen Drive" brand USB
flashdrives that work and another cheapo that I don't remember. All
work fine.


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than that" -- The Roadie in NANAE

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Ciro The Spider-Man dared to utter,
>> Sandisk Cruzer works well.
>
> I second that.

I'm a proud owner of the Sandisk Cruzer too, but I'm a little
sceptical about reccomending it over alternatives. I've had problems
with the 2.4 kernels and the Cruzer, but no such problems with the 2.6
kernels.

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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Old Man <bill@witch.lan> wrote in message news:<X7KdnXYHtrmJ3UrdRVn_iw@comcast.com>...
> John Culleton wrote:
>
> > Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?
> >
> Jack's right. fat16. My mistake.

Following a specific recommendation I bought a PQI 128MB Drive from
Newegg.com for $31 including shipping. It seems to work just fine. It
came preformatted with one fat16 partition. Slackware and Knoppix both
recognize it as drive
/dev/sda. Mounting /dev/sda1 is trivial.

I want to release a package of software to the mutitudes on a Slax or
Knoppix type distro. The hangup is read/write space for those
afflicted with recent versions of windows, where the proporietary NTFS
format is the norm. The pen drive gets around that problem nicely and
at low cost.

Mission accomplished. Thanks everybody.

John Culleton

John Culleton wrote:
> Old Man <bill@witch.lan> wrote in message news:<X7KdnXYHtrmJ3UrdRVn_iw@comcast.com>...
>
>>John Culleton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is it usual to format a pen drive with a fat32 file system?
>>>
>>
>>Jack's right. fat16. My mistake.
>
>
> Following a specific recommendation I bought a PQI 128MB Drive from
> Newegg.com for $31 including shipping. It seems to work just fine. It
> came preformatted with one fat16 partition. Slackware and Knoppix both
> recognize it as drive
> /dev/sda. Mounting /dev/sda1 is trivial.
>
> I want to release a package of software to the mutitudes on a Slax or
> Knoppix type distro. The hangup is read/write space for those
> afflicted with recent versions of windows, where the proporietary NTFS
> format is the norm. The pen drive gets around that problem nicely and
> at low cost.
>
> Mission accomplished. Thanks everybody.
>
> John Culleton

I reformatted my SanDisk Cruzer to a VFAT format. Allows me to have a
greater smaller file count.

Now, if I didn't have to plug it into a 'Doze box, I may try, someday,
an ext2 or ext3 format on the thing.

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, HJohnson dared to utter,
> I reformatted my SanDisk Cruzer to a VFAT format. Allows me to have a
> greater smaller file count.
>
> Now, if I didn't have to plug it into a 'Doze box, I may try, someday,
> an ext2 or ext3 format on the thing.

Personally I wouldn't bother that much with ext2, and certainly
wouldn't touch ext3 (or any other journaling filesystem for that
matter). FLash drives degrade over time according to how often you
write to them. Typically vfat is perfect. It's ubiquitous and
performance typically isn't an issue on a usb pen drive. There's still
a lot of usb 1.1 devices out there, and even with usb 2.0 speed on such
a drive isn't great.

And like I said, don't touch journaling filsystems. Since they journal
data (or at least metadata) they write to the disk a lot, and will kill
a flash drive in short order.

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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, HJohnson dared to utter,
> > I reformatted my SanDisk Cruzer to a VFAT format. Allows me to have a
> > greater smaller file count.
> >
> > Now, if I didn't have to plug it into a 'Doze box, I may try, someday,
> > an ext2 or ext3 format on the thing.

> Personally I wouldn't bother that much with ext2, and certainly
> wouldn't touch ext3 (or any other journaling filesystem for that
> matter). FLash drives degrade over time according to how often you
> write to them. Typically vfat is perfect. It's ubiquitous and
> performance typically isn't an issue on a usb pen drive. There's still
> a lot of usb 1.1 devices out there, and even with usb 2.0 speed on such
> a drive isn't great.

> And like I said, don't touch journaling filsystems. Since they journal
> data (or at least metadata) they write to the disk a lot, and will kill
> a flash drive in short order.

> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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