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Cygwin on a mobile drive: formatting options?
- From: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: Cygwin ML <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:42:37 +0000
- Subject: Cygwin on a mobile drive: formatting options?
Rather than install and maintain Cygwin on several desktop machines that
I use, I travel from one to another with one copy of Cygwin on a mobile
drive. This is formatted FAT32 as I don't need the grief NTFS provides
for file access and attribution. A 40G drive is glacier-shift slow, a
100G drive was lightning, and the latest 500G drive is slow. All 3 are
formatted using Linux fdisk + mkdosfs, as this is so reliable. To my
surprise all 3 drives allow the user to select either FAT32 (option "b"
in fdisk) or FAT32(LBA) (option "c"). ["Surprise" because naively I
thought LBA was an engineering option restricted to large capacity
magnetic drives only, and not solid state flash drives like the 40G.]
Question: Can anybody tell me whether "b" or "c" is better for access
speed or offers any perceptible advantage over the other?
I don't mind being told to pursue this thread on cygwin-talk [but it is
not intended to be "funny", apparently a requirement of that list] or
being told that it is off-topic, in which case where should it be pursued?
Thank you.
Fergus
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