"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

From	Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive
Date	2021-09-29 15:10 +0200
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Earlier this year I purchased a nice Lenovo Carbon X1 with an NVME SSD
with Win 10 Pro installed.  Ordinarily I would reformat the drive
without a second thought but in this case I really do have occasional
need to use Win 10 (Kenwood radio programming mostly) and since swapping
the NVME is not trivial, I've opted to install Bullseye to a USB flash
drive.

A test run with KDE Plasma shows that performance is acceptable even
with EXT4 as the file system.  I now have some SanDisk Ultra Fit flash
drives arriving in 128GB capacity (overkill, oh well).  I am now
considering what file system would be proper to use in this case.  I
understand that the journal can be disabled when using EXT4 to save
writes which is probably fine (this system will be non-critical).  I've
also seen that F2FS has been available in the kernel since 3.8, but I'm
unsure whether the installer from a Debian live CD will offer it as a
choice.

The Arch Wiki notes some issues with its fsck and the Debian Wiki is
rather short on details.  I found this page[1] that was from 2013 and
updated early last year.  The process is not trivial which hints that
F2FS is not included in the Buster installer, at least.

As this is a non-typical installation for a dual-boot configuration that
intends to use UEFI to choose the OS to run, are there tips and
suggestions for this?  I have already solved the bug where MS places its
boot image in a directory in the ESP that prevents an EFI enabled
removable media from booting[2] (second paragraph).

TIA

- Nate

[1] https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path

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"Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-29 15:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-29 16:50 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-29 18:40 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-29 19:50 +0200
        Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 02:00 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 04:00 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-30 09:10 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-10-01 08:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-09-29 23:40 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-30 02:10 +0200
  Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-09-30 22:20 +0200
    Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-10-01 03:10 +0200
      Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2021-10-01 04:00 +0200
        Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-10-01 18:20 +0200
    USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-10-01 08:50 +0200
      Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-01 12:00 +0200
        Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-10-01 13:30 +0200
          Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian  installed on a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-10-01 13:50 +0200

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