Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.



Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-24 12:07, Bob McGowan wrote:
[snip]

And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type:

That's the key difference, since vfat "is" fat32.


Ah, yes. Too long since I've dealt much with FAT of any sort, details
get forgotten ...

Thanks for the reminder.

$ mount|grep sde
/dev/sde on /var/autofs/usb/centon type vfat ...


Try this:
$ mount -lt vat


And for new things to learn ;)

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