On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/17/07 20:29, Carl Fink wrote: > > The solution (okay, my solution) is to switch to one of the nifty new > > removable USB hard drives. Bigger than a flash drive, sure, but you can > > format it EXT2 if you'll never use it on a Windows box, and since what's in > > there is an IDE hard disk drive, syncing it won't hurt it worth mentioning. > > And the smallest ones you see around now hold 80 gigs. > > Unfortunately, though, formatting an MP3 player (which is the > "drive" OP is talking about) to ext2 isn't recommended.
Sorry, I missed that. Though actually my MP3 player *is* a removable 20GB hard disk, it's true that I can't reformat it without losing functionality. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]