Re: Warehouse Stationary Printers and USB Sticks
Chris Bannister <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:57:26 +1300
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| Message-ID | <20151212025725.GK18118@tal> |
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 11:03:28AM +1300, Noel Sheridan wrote: > I notice that some DVB recorders (which seem to be linux based) format flash > drives to ntfs format for their usb recording. > > All a bit strange when the obvious choice would be ext4 for a linux system. > > I think probably fat32 is not a reliable format when writing and reading long > files. It seems the limit is 4GB, I haven't seen any files of that size yet myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/