formatted USB to ext4

[Michael]

Please explain how you mean 'the data last longer'?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:28 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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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