How to format a pen drive?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:51 +0800, FuziOK wrote:
> What does "premature wearout" mean? Why does it happen?

They only have a finite number of writes that they can manage, before
wearing out.  And it's not a very high value.

If you have a filing system that is continually writing something to the
drive, it'll wear it out quicker.  Such as, updating file accessed
times, etc.

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