On Sat 28 Jun 2008 14:48:40 NZST +1200, 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.
What do you want it for? File exchange: Use fat if you want, try ntfs if you need. Backup: fat is unreliable, expect the filesystem to go up in smoke at any time. Happens all the time with digicam flash cards and similar storage devices. Useless for backups. As pointed out already, size does also matter. Billy's file systems don't store unix semantics - useless. Encryption is probably not portable away from Linux, but then readability of my Linux backups on other OSes is not one of my requirements. Encryption is. Perhaps a choice of filesystems on different partitions is the best all-round solution. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
