USB sticks – Paolo Redaelli https://monodes.com/predaelli A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero Sun, 02 Jul 2017 17:52:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 91795679 Usb flash drive and wear leveling https://monodes.com/predaelli/2017/07/02/usb-flash-drive-and-wear-leveling/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2017/07/02/usb-flash-drive-and-wear-leveling/#respond Sun, 02 Jul 2017 17:52:58 +0000 http://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=3196 From: linux – How to correctly partition usb flash drive and which filesystem to choose considering wear leveling? – Super User an useful little change to fstab for usb sticks or SD attached to your ARM boards, like Raspberries or Inforce 6410:

Also, in your fstab, be sure to use the mount option “noatime” to avoid unnecessary writes every time a file is accessed.

As normal settings usually tend to wear out the flash relatively fast.

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