Change the filesystem on sd cards/usb sticks (was- Permissions)

[Michael Havens]

so no go on the sd cards then. what about thumb drives?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2016-01-18 08:13, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> ext3 at the time (99)) was superior to FAT because instead of
>> filling in the nearest open space with data when it is told to write
>> it scatters the data around on the disk. [...] I was
>> thinking it might be a good idea to format sd cards and  thumb drives
>> to ext3/ext4 for this reason. Is that a sound idea or am I mistaken?
>>
>
> All the SD cards I've seen have FAT filesystems on them.  The firmware in
> cameras almost certainly can't handle anything other than FAT.  Android
> devices with SD slots probably expect FAT SD cards too, though they might
> be able to handle ext3.
>
> FAT actually makes sense for removable storage in many situations, because
> everything can understand it and UIDs/GIDs don't make sense for things that
> can be attached to different devices.  I don't think it'll be possible to
> get rid of FAT for this reason.  (And isn't there something called ExFAT
> that SD-using devices that take cards > 32G are required to support?)
>
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