On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Folks;
>
> another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB
> drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, Windows and
> OpenSolaris, thus the lowest common denominator (in terms of file
> systems) being FAT32. Taken into account I do have also to backup a few
> VirtualBox images (which are larger than FAT32 allows), I will have to
> reformat this drive anyhow, so my question: What kind of file system
> would suit best the need of being written to in Linux _and_ read from in
> OpenSolaris? (This is just for the migration of config and some data
> indeed, I'll have to go for FAT32 again after for the Windows situations
> anyhow...).
In that case, I'd use "star" to write directly to the media, i.e. create
an empty/unused primary partition on the drive (what'd be /dev/hd.X, 1 <=
X <= 4, on Linux, and /dev/dsk/...p[1-4] on Solaris), and then do:
cd /dir-to-backup-from; star cvf /dev/dsk/hde2 .
on Linux, and
cd /dir-to-restore-in; star xvf /dev/dsk/c...p2
on Solaris to extract it.
That's capable of >4GB files, UNIX permissions, long filenames, ... - for
a simple data transfer/copy, it's also much faster than FAT32.
FrankH.
>
> Comments, anyone?
> TIA and best regards,
> Kristian
>
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