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Lie Ryan, mused, then expounded: |
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> It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter |
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> how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB |
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> cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can |
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> save your drive without the journal. |
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If there is concern about that, then the two filesystems to use would be |
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XFS and EXT3. |
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But, don't take my work for it, simply set up a bootable image with each |
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filesystem, create a bootable USB stick, boot it, then pull it without |
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unmounting it. Even pull power. With current >= 2.6.32 kernels those |
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will survive better than the others. |