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High Performance USB stick formatting with ext4

To format my USB sticks that I use following set of commands:

Assuming my USB stick is recognized as sdc, and has a primary partition created this is the set of commands that I use:

# create ext4 filesystem without journal
 mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdc1

# give your newly formatted partition a name
 e2label /dev/sdc1 storage

# Use data mode for filesystem as writeback for better performance
 tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sdc1 

# Disable reserved space on my 57GB drive it wastes 5% which is 3GB
 tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdc1
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Compile and install kfilebox 0.4.10 on Debian Jessie

If you using Dropbox client and you would like full system tray integration unfortunately you can not install a package that will work without issues with latest versions of dropbox client.

Solution is to download, compile and install kfilebox from source, but since kfilebox is unmaintained for long time I found this fixed version on github page: https://github.com/gtgt/kfilebox. Continue reading “Compile and install kfilebox 0.4.10 on Debian Jessie”