Need info: NOOBS vs Recommended install

[Guardian00]

Hi, I want to try a Pi and want to do it with Arch. Raspberry recommends NOOBS and format the SD with SD Card Formatter from sdcard.org

sdcard.org say "Using generic formatting utilities may result in less than optimal performance..." Could I have better performance using SD Card Formatter's FAT32?

I already using Arch in my headless box (and thinking to replace it with a Pi 3), so the recommended/no-NOOBS installation is not a problem.

FAT32 vs EXT4?

fdisk vs SD Card Formatter?

NOOBS vs typing?

Thanks

[moonman]

The only fat32 partition is boot partition which contains the bits of the system to boot up the rpi . it is not used when the system is running so SD format tool is not going to have any effect, really. Ext2/3/4 (or any other linux filesystem be it f2fs or btrfs) is required to run everything else.

Now AFAIK, NOOBS partitions SD card multiple ways so you can multiboot. It really doesn't matter in terms of usuabilty if you do it the noobs way or our official way. To be honest I don't even know if noobs still works for archlinux arm.

[Guardian00]

SOLVED!

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