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[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 24.05.2012 04:48, schrieb Greg Freemyer:

> I know windows admins at a minimum reformat external media routinely.


I also do this, even with Unix fs. Reasons:
* external media often gets surprise-removed. Journaling fs might be
  fine, but I'd not bet that the file system does not start to
  "bit-rot". I have definitely seen this with reiserfs in the past.
* "rm -rf /media/foo/*" is often much slower than "mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1"
  so if I'm going to erase everything anyway, I can also mkfs.
* file system block allocation patterns might degrade over time. Doing
  mkfs really starts from scratch
* depending on what was on the disk, I need to dd /dev/urandom onto it,
  so a mkfs is needed afterwards.

...but that's surely offtopic now, so let's stop it here :-)

(yes, i know that urandom -> disk is not enough in general, but it is
usually enough for my use cases)

Best regards,

        Stefan
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Stefan Seyfried

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