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How to correctly partition usb flash drive and which filesystem to choose considering wear leveling?

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Mar 15, 202627134 views
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Problem

Two problems. First one: how to partition the flash drive? I shouldn't need to do this, but I'm no longer sure if my partition is properly aligned since I was forced to delete and create a new partition table after gparted complained when I tried to format the drive from FAT to ext4. The naive answ…

Error Output

$sfdisk -l -uM  /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 30147 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
   for C/H/S=…

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Don't worry about cylinders, heads and sectors and only ever work with sectors. The easiest way to align the filesystem is to simply not have a partition table (i.e. create the filesystem on directly). Most Linux systems will handle this fine, but W…

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