sorry. last longer was the wrong verbage.  Mister Litt must have been the gentleman who said it. But do you do anything special when you format it ext4?

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:43 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700

>I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any
>longer than another type of format.

Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience,
formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer than the windows format. I
have no data or even suspicions regarding Ext4 extending the life of
the *hardware*.

SteveT

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