8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Friday, 2009/December/25 18:28

> Tim:
>>> There are drivers to read ext3 on Windows.  If you use both systems,
>>> you'll have to weigh up which is the most convenient.  Native file
>>> systems on Linux, which supports your normal permissions and
>>> ownership file details.  Or a pathetic-featured file system that
>>> can be easily read by many different systems.
> 
> 
> Antonio Olivares:
>> <quote>
>> or a pathetic-featured file system that can be easily read by many
>> different systems.
>> </quote>
>>  
>> I like this quote, but I have seen systems which this is not TRUE :(,
>> I help my students clean out their windows machines, and they had to
>> force shutdown(Pressing and holding power button, machine was not
>> responding had AV virus/spyware/trojan(you name it) ) and the NTFS
>> partition was cleanly unmounted and therefore not easily read :(
> 
> I have to point out that the /quite universal pathetic file system/ is
> FAT, not NTFS.  Though both seem designed to support the:
> 
>   Windows deniable plausibility error:
>   I cannot recall the contents of that file.
> 
> There are a great many number of systems, that one way or another, can
> easily work with the FAT file system.  NTFS support is still limited.

There is a reason that FAT became the standard for flash memory drives
rather than the others. It writes to the drive one heck of a lot less
often than NTFX or ext(whatever). This can be important on a device with
lifetime write limitations.

{^_^}