Hi all, A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...) on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how to partition it? Constraints:
* I use Linux, so NTFS is not an option. * The friends in Iran need to copy from Windows. So the problems: * First, how should I setup that under Linux? It's a Maxtor one. Both windows and linux detect it as 33GB. Which drivers should be loaded, ...? * How to parition? As the only type between windows and Linux is FAT32, there should be one then. I guess the biggest FAT32 partition can be around 30GB. Right? * Note that repartitioning later is probably not an option, as I don't have enough empty space to move stuff around. And going with FAT32 means I should break it into several partitions, that I hate to do. * The best I can think ritht now is to have two ext3 around 80GB each, and a *buffer* of FAT32. Assuming they don't want to fill more than 160GB. Later I can remove the FAT32, or let it be there as a buffer for windows use. * I'm going to use the hard through a IDE to Firewire converter, as a SCSI device. I guess there would be fewer problems that time. Comments welcome, behdad ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
