questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:20:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:49:25 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>>If you don't need the last access times, turn them off and your SSD
>>will last longer. So will an ordinary HDD, for that matter. And you'll
>>get a (very, very small) performance increase too :-)  
>
>If you need to access tons of files for audio real-time multi-track
>hard disk recording, noatime for HDDs could gain a lot. However, for
>averaged usage the default for more or less all distros for good
>reasons is relatime.
>Nothing does last forever, but if gear does require special care,
>because common usage would reduce the lifespan to a ridiculous short
>duration, then it would be better not to use such crappy gear at all.
>Fortunately urban myths such as the fragil SSD are apparently nonsense.
>I can't say for sure how long a hard used SSD will last, the one I'm
>using isn't old, but regarding your claims it's already old enough,
>that it should be completely broken regarding my careless usage.
>

PS: Oops, I forgot to paste the following

$ man mount | grep mutt -B3 -A1
       relatime
              Update inode access times relative to modify or change time.  Access time is only updated if the
              previous  access  time was earlier than the current modify or change time.  (Similar to noatime,
              but it doesn't break mutt or other applications that need to know if a file has been read  since
              the last time it was modified.)
$ grep music /etc/fstab
/dev/sda11      /mnt/music      ext4  defaults,noatime         0 2
/dev/sdb12      /home/music     ext4  defaults,noatime         0 2
/dev/sda5       /home/s1.music  ext4  defaults,noatime         0 2

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