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 -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org