On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 2:48:40 pm Nick Rout wrote: > Just looking for a little guidance on the best way to partition and > format a 160G 2.5 inch USB2 portable hard drive. > > Most flash disks are formatted with some version of FAT, for maximum > compatibility and of course FAT works fine with linux. But I am > confused about maximum filesystem size on FAT partitions, and I don't > want a whole lot of small partitions. Any of the linux filesystems > will reduce compatibility with windows machines. > > Brilliant war stories anyone?
Easy when you know how. From my Linux notes To set up my USB Portable Hard drive enclosure. Create ntfs partion with cfdisk /dev/sdc Format ntfs partition with mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc1 -L portable (portable = volume name) Mount drive (writable) with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -o force (Having first created folder /mnt/usbdrive) or for my pocket drive..... mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc5 /mnt/usbpocket/ -o force My bak backup...... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync -urC --delete /mnt/bak/ /mnt/usbpocket/bak/ -- Regards, Robert -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) Phone: 03 383 5807 Mobile: 027 228 4698 www.fisher.net.nz
