For what it's worth, there's an XP driver out there that lets it read ext3 which is really useful for dual environment situations.
-- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Knadle wrote: > >> Uh, well, I think you're about to run into a problem there. The largest >> FAT32 partition that you can make before running into any compatibility >> issues with Windows is 32 GB. [With 'mkfs.vfat' you can create a FAT32 >> partition larger than 32 GB, and Windows 2k or XP might be able to mount it, >> but 2k and XP cannot create a FAT32 filesystem larger than 32 GB.] From >> what I've read, Windows Vista apparently includes some new extension on >> FAT32 (essentially "FAT64"), but I don't know if prior versions of Windows >> can use that. So FAT32 itself seems to be a compatibility problem if you >> want to make one big 1 TB partition. >> >> > Thanks for the pointer, Chris! I did some research online, and it looks > like FAT32 can handle partitions up to 4 TB. Windows can't /create/ > partitions over 32 GB, but it can use them without problems. It just means > I'll have to use some third-party software to create it. > > BTW I wasn't planning to make the entire drive one partition. My current > plan has six partitions, mostly ext3, plus some unallocated space, and my > tentative size for the one for the backups was 100 GB. If it has to be 32 > GB, I can see if that's enough, and create more 32G partitions if I need > them. > > It also looks like 'tar' can handle both the archiving and the >>> compression, and there are programs to undo that for all those OSs, >>> which I will also put on that partition. >>> >>> >> Yeah, .tar and .tar.gz are rather ubiquitous. >> >> > I think bzip2 creates slightly smaller files than gzip, but I'll go with > gzip because it's better supported under various OSs. > > Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails > Feb 4 - TBD > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails Feb 4 - TBD
