For big files use XFS
For many thousands of little ones use Reiser, either 3 or 4.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
My suggestion is that if you mainly use it with Linux pc's then dont go
for either fat or ntfs stick with ext3 or simmilar for compatibility
with *nix.
Navi
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
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
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, expec
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 3:10:25 pm Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
>>
>> I've found that using ntfs-3g under linux is both painfully slow and (cpu)
>> time consuming...
>>
> You may be right but I have not noticed any problems for my n
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 3:10:25 pm Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> I've found that using ntfs-3g under linux is both painfully slow and (cpu)
> time consuming...
>
You may be right but I have not noticed any problems for my needs.
The ability to have a portable device useable on both Windows and Linux is a
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:01:43 +1200
Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 som
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 3:01:43 pm Robert Fisher wrote:
> 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)
Of course you need to have ntfs-3g installed.
This method me
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:48:40 +1200
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 F
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.
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 pa
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