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071020 b.n. wrote: |
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> Philip Webb ha scritto: |
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>> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs |
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>> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? |
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>> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. |
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>> It won't affect today's installation job, |
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>> but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. |
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> I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. |
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> What filesystem do you use on them? |
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Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. |
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I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way: |
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they seem to have an existing file system on them, |
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but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. |
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So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? |
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Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? |
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How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. |
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