ביום שישי, 31 באוקטובר 2003, 10:03, נכתב על ידי Behdad Esfahbod: > 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. if YOU have only to read, no problems here.
There are some tools for reading etx2/3 under windows. I am not aware of writing drivers for win32 platforms. I use Total Commander's plugins (ext2/3, reiserfs). > 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, ...? asking that in a LUG... LOL... > * 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? wrong. for example read: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp a quote from there: "FAT32 ... Volumes from 512 MB to 2 TB." and then: "In Windows XP, you can format a FAT32 volume up to 32 GB only." I do believe that freedos implementation of format does not have such limitations. Feel free to go to their site and check. (the dos program will run under XP don't worry) -- diego, 5 Heshvan 5764 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ================================================================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]
