>> >> Has anything else in your home been fried my iffy >> power? If the drive >> is genuinely fried, then throw it out. Before you > > No, the only thing that's been affected is the > external drive. I'm going to reformat it in reiser, at > least to back up the laptop. I'm using kanotix > 2005-03, and I finally got a copy of 2005-04 which I'm > now going to install. > > You mentioned that reiser is known for getting > corrupted, should I maybe choose another file system? Of all the Linux filesystems available, Reiser is simply the most experimental. I know SuSE and other distributions use it by default. For backing up your files, you might consider something else for the simple reason that you have already been burnt once before.
> When I get the mac I guess I'll put HFS+ on it - I'm > assuming that's the mac native filesystem - but can I > use that in linux? I mean now if I plug it into my > linux laptop's usb connection. Apropos does turn up > some HFS commands, including hformat. The Linux HFS+ driver is alpha at best- much like the NTFS driver. > > In another mac/linux compatability question, will I be > able to sync the linux laptop and mac with rsync or > another tool? rsync is what I've been using to backup > my laptop to the hard drive. You will have trouble backing up from HFS+ to a different filesystem, not because it isn't possible, but because it is difficult to do it right. Even if you do manage to properly back up the meta-data, you still have to test the restoration. Also note that the generic rsync will not work properly on OS X. Either use Apple's patched rsync or rsyncX (which includes a Cocoa wrapper around the rsync options). -M ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
