On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:17:34AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >Also, what other file systems should I use?
Do you need a filesystem at all? What about just writing a tarball to
the drive? Can other OS's tar read in from a raw device? This save
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:14:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> ?? For a few years now, I've been able to read from and write to a USB
> medium which was HFS+ formatted with Mac's Disk Utility.
Non-journaled HFS+ filesystems are "fully" supported on linux systems,
now that there are hfsprogs p
kj:
> Amit Uttamchandani:
> > kj:
> > > If you can live without Windows compatibility, using HFS (instead
> > > of HFS+) would work, since Linux can write to it.
> >
> > HFS+ sounds like a good idea here.
>
> Just to be clear, Linux can not write to HFS+ (last time I tried),
> only to HFS.
?? For
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:42:39PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:51:52, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu :
> > > Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems:
> > >
> > > - max file size of 2GB
> >
> > I think that should be 4 GB.
>
> Somehow I had t
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:59:46 +
kj wrote:
If you can live without Windows compatibility, using HFS (instead of
HFS+) would work, since Linux can write to it.
HFS+ sounds like a good idea here.
Thanks
Just to be clear, Linux can not write to HFS+ (las
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:51:52, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu :
> > Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems:
> >
> > - max file size of 2GB
>
> I think that should be 4 GB.
Somehow I had the impression it was 2GB, must have been because of the
partition limitation of F
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:24:17 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,24.Dec.08, 23:47:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >
> > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
> > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
> > I have a Debian Testing
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:59:46 +
kj wrote:
> Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I
> > need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3
> > format.
>
>
> Different strokes for different folks - I'd format the whole
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:17:34 -0600
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
> > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
> > I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu :
> Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems:
>
> - max file size of 2GB
I think that should be 4 GB.
> If you use ext2
... then make sure that you have access to the ext driver either
online or on a small FAT partition.
--
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu :
> I don't know about Macs, but NTFS might also be an option with ntfs-3g.
Macs (OS X) can read NTFS w/out modification, and can be made able to
write to NTFS too. I seem to recall that the software I used to do
this last time I needed to was freeware, though it may not
On Wed,24.Dec.08, 23:47:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
> I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
> FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
> I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced
> file system that has
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I
need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3
format.
Different strokes for different folks - I'd format the whole thing in a
non-Windows file system in case it gets plugged into
On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced
file system that has journalling, etc.
I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced
file system that has journalling, etc.
So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted
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