From: Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:42:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071020104254.GC4637@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4719C922.6040407@gmail.com>
071020 b.n. wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs
>> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ?
>> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files.
>> It won't affect today's installation job,
>> but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it.
> I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks.
> What filesystem do you use on them?
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem.
I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way:
they seem to have an existing file system on them,
but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient.
So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ?
Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ?
How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 18:35 [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles Philip Webb
2007-10-19 19:08 ` Peter Alfredsen
2007-10-20 8:51 ` [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved) Philip Webb
2007-10-20 9:23 ` b.n.
2007-10-20 10:42 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2007-10-20 17:16 ` Florian Philipp
2007-10-26 15:32 ` Eric Martin
2007-10-20 9:26 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-10-20 12:44 ` [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles Alex Schuster
2007-10-22 17:39 ` Mick
2007-10-22 21:30 ` [gentoo-user] Re: new box Philip Webb
2007-10-22 23:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-10-23 0:06 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-10-23 22:43 ` Philip Webb
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