Filesystem on SD cards

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    quemaneumaticos

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    Hi, Im gonna buy a SDHC card to expans my ubuntu(in my new aspire one. Ive read, that the filesystem is FAT32. Can I format to ext2 or ext so that it will improve the performance?




    Sorry for my english.
     
    quemaneumaticos, Aug 1, 2008
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    You can format it to whatever filesystem you like. Ext2 is probably best for flash.
     
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    Compared to modern hard disks SDHC cards are still pretty slow and the performance will mostly depend an the exact type of the SDHC card you are using. The file system you chose won't make much of a differnce.

    Ext is nice because it supports Linux permissions, symbolic links and files larger than 4GB. If you don't need that I would stick with FAT32.
     
    atrawog, Aug 4, 2008
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