The save-folder, on the other hand, will automatically expand/contract with its contents, all the way up to the size of the partition you're using.Īs a general rule of thumb, it's fair to say that ext3 is probably best for 'standard' Puppies. If you want to use the more-modern 'save- folder' option, the underlying file-system must be a Linux one, i.e., ext2/3/4.ĭifference between the save-file and save-folder? The save-file is of 'fixed' size if it gets full, and needs to be made bigger, you have to do this manually. The save-file contains a Linux file-system inside it, of course.which is what Pup needs.

There's several articles on the Forum about this in recent years some of the others can no doubt point you in the right direction if you wish to peruse them.įAT32 absolutely fine, so long as you go with the save- file option. (Ext2 doesn't have this 'safety-feature'.)Īs for Ext4, well.this is the one that's causing problems with Puppy finding its save-file/folder at boot time.

You can usually recover ext3 file-systems the command-line function e2fsck makes use of this when it checks & attempts to repair anything that might go wrong. Hoo, there's always been controversy over this one.Įxt2 is more suited to flash drives, but has a tendency to spontaneously and very easily 'corrupt', without warning.Įxt3 is safer, in that it has what's called a 'journal'.