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Title: Which File Format Is Better?
Post by: unplug on April 15, 2005, 09:48:30 pm

I just bought a 1gb sd. Now I am wondering which file format will do me good in the long run? FAT32 or ext2? If I use fat32 do I need to defrag after awhile?

Title: Which File Format Is Better?
Post by: tristezo2k on April 15, 2005, 11:07:13 pm

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I just bought a 1gb sd. Now I am wondering which file format will do me good in the long run? FAT32 or ext2? If I use fat32 do I need to defrag after awhile?
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This is up to your needs.
For instance, compatibility with that thing m$ sells forces to Fat.
Hability to link to the internat FS requires ext2.
I would go with half each.
Two partitions, 512 each.

Regards.
Sebastian.

Title: Which File Format Is Better?
Post by: danr on April 18, 2005, 04:11:56 am

Or you could format it as umsdos and keep msdos compatibility but still be able to use symlinks.

See this thread (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11747) for more details.  You might have to hunt around for umsdos on ROMs other than pdaXrom.

Dan