On Tue April 20 2004 13:18, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > I am hoping to have a USB flash drive by then. Thought I would throw the > seed out there so we can be prepared for it. > > I may be bringing my big box so that I can review my install with some > folks and do some fine tuning on it, but if I can get my USB drive by then, > I may decide to play with that as well. Not sure if it will be a 256 or a > 128 yet (obviously I am hoping for bigger). Which while I am on the > subject, I know the fujifilm and verbatim ones list Linux 2.4.0 or higher > for OS support, but should it matter if a drive doesnt? I was thinking of > the Sandisk titanium 256 but to my knowledge there is no "listed" Linux > support. ANy thoughts on that? > > Also looking for suggestion for a distro to install on the drive. I would > ideally like to be able to have the OS and be abel to transport data as > well. Probably looking at using it as portable storage as well as a > portable recovery/testing kit. If needed I can always carry a CD with me > and do a distro that way as well. I have some of the business card CD's so > could use something a mini-distro thatw ay as well
The Verbatim USB flash drives come with a FAT32 file system installed on them. Off the top of my head, the encryption aspect is software that you install on your computer. I don't think this software was available for linux, otherwise just using the key as a storage device is quite capable. I have taken a 32Mb Verbatim key and partitioned it to 2 - 16Mb partitions. One I formatted with a FAT file system, and the other partition I formatted with an EXT2 file system. I use the FAT filesystem to be able to connect to Windows machines and have a few programs on it such as WinSCP, PuttY, and vncViewer, as well as a few files I backup for work . I basically use the EXT2 filesystem for my GnuPG files. The nice thing about the EXT2 partition is that it is not read on a windows box. The one thing to keep in mind with using the EXT2 file system is that the files are stored with the UID/GID and will belong to whoever has those numbers on a particular box. If you want to be able to use it between different boxes, ideally you'd want to make sure that you have the same UID/GID on all your boxes, or at least have the power to CHOWN the files. HTH Neil Bower Registered User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
