> 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:
They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW :-) > > * 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, ...? What your BIOS saying to this ? Does it see it as 250 ? If not, you probably need to upgrade the bios or buy a new motherboard or use some utility from maxtor (like ezdrive) > > * 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? I think there is no limit to that. My friend has a fat32 120Gb one partition system :) Oleg. ================================================================= 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]
