So it doesn't really matter? I'll leave it then. Thanks for the help. On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2016-01-18 10:22, Michael Havens wrote: > >> so no go on the sd cards then. what about thumb drives? >> > > Putting non-FAT filesystems on USB disks works just fine. Most modern > BIOSes will happily read and boot from an ISO9660 or UDF filesystem that's > been dd'ed to a USB disk. An ext3 filesystem on a USB disk is totally > feasible; my removable backup drives are ext3. The only real problem with > using ext3 on a removable disk is that it's a pain to read that disk from > an OS X machine. (Windows has ext2ifs, which allows Windows to treat an > ext3 partition as just another drive.) > > I don't think that using ext3 on a flash-memory device would improve the > device's lifetime though. Flash-memory devices almost always have > wear-leveling built in at a level lower than the block device layer. > Logical sector 1 may be mapped to physical sector 4567, and that mapping > may change at any time. They had to do this, because the FAT is always in > the same set of logical sectors, and is written to frequently. > > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: