-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/27/2009 03:13 PM, Kushal Koolwal wrote: >> I would like to use my USB device for reading and writing to the >> drive just as we do on a regular IDE hard drive. Ie. you want to write 'data' to it as opposed to install debian to it. >> AFAIK, a live usb system would not allow me to write data >> persistently just like a live CD. How did you get this idea? Read [2]. >> Also my original question was for a recommendation of FS for >> installing Debian on a USB flash drive. > > If you want it to act like a hard drive, put a "hard drive fs" on it: > ext3. ... or ext2 if you don't want a journal and reduce the r/w load of the device [1]: > ext2 is still recommended over journaling file systems on bootable > USB flash drives and other solid-state drives. ext2 performs fewer > writes than ext3 since it does not need to write to the journal. Cheers, Johannes [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl/iQAACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV4rQCcCTIhjDt47k95eCyTqRXUbn+l q9IAn3q12CWw8ZHxNVcM0F6B6qYvx/UT =nlX9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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