Another responder mentioned block sizes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, that mb the problem.<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I&#39;m new to USB sticks &amp; haven&#39;t formatted them in any way:
<br>they seem to have an existing file system on them,<br>but mb it&#39;s Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient.<br>So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ?<br>Do I simply do &#39;mke2fs&#39; (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ?
<br>How about block size ?&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks for the replies so far.</blockquote><div><br>Sticks are usually formatted w/FAT16 as M$ is giving people a hard time about FAT32 (which is even more inefficent.)<br></div><br></div><br>