Which FS for USB Flash Drive
 

Hi,


Does anybody have any experience with installing Debian (say Lenny) on USB flash drives? I would like to install Debian on my PQI 4 GB USB flash drive but I am not sure which filesystem to use - ext2, ext3, XFS?

My primary concern/criteria in selecting a fs would be throughput/performance.

I am tried searching around the internet but most of the articles talk about preparing a LIVE USB flash drive which is *not* what I would like to do. I just want a plain Debian system on my USB flash drive just like on any IDE Hard Drive.

Thanks

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Which FS for USB Flash Drive
 

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Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> I am tried searching around the internet but most of the articles
> talk about preparing a LIVE USB flash drive which is *not* what I
> would like to do. I just want a plain Debian system on my USB flash
> drive just like on any IDE Hard Drive.

What is the difference? What difference do you want to achieve with
respect to a 'live' debian system?

IIRC, a usb-live system is just an installation that treats the usb
drive like an ordinary (internal) drive.

Johannes
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Which FS for USB Flash Drive
 

>What is the difference? What difference do you want to achieve with respect to a 'live' debian system?

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.
AFAIK, a live usb system would not allow me to write data persistently just like a live CD.

Also my original question was for a recommendation of FS for installing Debian on a USB flash drive.

Thanks.

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/







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> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Which FS for USB Flash Drive
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:07:55 -0800
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> Hi,
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> Does anybody have any experience with installing Debian (say Lenny) on USB flash drives? I would like to install Debian on my PQI 4 GB USB flash drive but I am not sure which filesystem to use - ext2, ext3, XFS?
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> My primary concern/criteria in selecting a fs would be throughput/performance.
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> I am tried searching around the internet but most of the articles talk about preparing a LIVE USB flash drive which is *not* what I would like to do. I just want a plain Debian system on my USB flash drive just like on any IDE Hard Drive.
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> Thanks
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> I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/
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