Dear All,
I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running
Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what
steps should I follow?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running
Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what
steps should I follow?
More information might help get better answers. Such as whether you're
after
On 09/22/2014 02:40 PM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running
Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what
steps should I follow?
More information might help get better
Definitely a journaling filesystem like ntfs, ext3 or ext4.
If windows should also have access to it you're gonna have to use ntfs,
otherwise ext4 is the way to go.
Check it also for bad sectors w/ `badblocks`, better to be safe than
sorry.
- Nathan
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On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote:
E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data
with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange
data with arbitrary other systems (TVs, MediaPlayers) other restrictions
may come
On 09/22/14 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote:
E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data
with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange
data with arbitrary other systems (TVs,
On Monday, September 22, 2014 10:41:37 PM Ed Greshko wrote:
Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive?
Maybe it is because I started using systems when disk storage was more
expensive. But I've always either used tar or cpio compressed
backups. This way, no
for external hard disk
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On 09/22/14 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:41:20PM +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote:
E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data
with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange
data with arbitrary
On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive?
Yes, at least I do.
When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole archive
useless. So therefore I just copy the whole thing. It's easy, reliable
and fast.
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I do too.
Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd
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On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup
drive?
Yes, at least I do.
When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole
archive
useless. So
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:21:05PM -0400, ergodic wrote:
I do too.
Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd
me too. Using rsnapshot backing up to a locally-attached esata raid-1 device.
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On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
Does anyone actually just copy files from
On 22.09.2014, ergodic wrote:
Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd
In my case, it's all very simple. I'm using
rsync -avxHSAX --delete /source/ /target after having done an
integrity check.
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I prefer dcfldd for complete partitions because
it does not change the partition UUID. You
can also copy the partition to a file
eg: foo.img
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On 22.09.2014, ergodic wrote:
Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd
In my case, it's all very simple. I'm using
rsync
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running
Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what
steps should I follow?
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