I wonder how much longer this issue is going to be an issue.
When will we see a NSD in a chip. Just put the drive in the 'case' and
the 'chip' formats it up in your proffered format. Because it's an NSD
you can connect to it using smb, nfs, you choose.
Cheers Don
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
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
