-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-12 at 08:22 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Generally, under SUSE 10, the USB stick is mounted with sync. You can just pull it out once the write has been completed. It is also the reason, writing to the USB stick, is so slow and possibly reducing the life of the USB stick. This is caused by sync updating the FAT table all the time. Since the number of writes are limited to the number times, you could psosibly wear out the FAT area.
This is apparently only true for FAT16, not FAT32 en EXT.
¿Why so? FAT32 is almost the same thing as FAT16, but with different sizes for some tables and data (metadata). You still need to update the fat area after writing any new file or modifying its size, so yes, write operations concentrate on that region of memory. Whether that stresses the device or cause premature ageing, I can't say. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFqD8HtTMYHG2NR9URAtEVAJ90VrAG6g7hg9WBfxVZiOIVHK521ACfXmii MeOu4qob2um7zrfvNLNYiTc= =NDWr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----