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Khurram Wadee ✅

I managed to create an on a . The reason I wanted this is that I want to back up some directories, which contain secure information and also , the one that comes on most drives, doesn’t know how to handle properly. I don’t need or want to share the stick with any non-Linux machines.

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Khurram Wadee ✅

Anyway, I was having big issues with trying to create an file system and the same problem was occurring on multiple devices, indicating that it wasn’t the device that was at fault and I concluded that it must be something to do with .ext4.

Khurram Wadee ✅

So today I tired .btrfs and this works. I was using , which can’t create file systems and so I created a blank (cleared) one, used to create the on the device, and then created the brtrfs file system.

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@mkwadee
It sounds as if you made a good choice. Ext4 uses a journal and will wear out a USB data stick prematurely by writing to the same blocks over and over again. (For this reason, I generally use Ext2 on data sticks.) A brief Web search suggests that btrfs is more flash-friendly than Ext4.

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Khurram Wadee ✅

@CppGuy Thanks, I didn't even consider the wear-out issue.

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