Hey yeah FAT32 is not journaling either, so if there is every a power blip or cut of connection there is zero recovery from the file system (if that is a concern).
This wikipedia page is one of my favorites, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:01, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ken and Matthew, > > Awesome info! I'll give it a try :-) > > Ken: does this answer your question? > > Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdf1 1 121601 976760001 b W95 FAT32 > > By the way I decided to use FAT32 so I can move the drive between several > machines. But.., I may decide to get another one ($150.00 at Fry's final > price) and do the "/dev/disk/by-id/xxxx" but with an ext3 partition which > will be much more efficient. > > Thanks!!! > Alfredo > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chanoch (Ken) Bloom > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:03 AM > To: lugod's technical discussion forum > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive > > > That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives are > thumb drives and the like, single-user disks that come and go. You can change > that, though. > > Create a rule to identify the device uniquely in udev and to assign it a > permenant device node (I can't tell you exactly how to do this, it will > depend on being able to find something like a serial number that udev can use > to identify it.), then add that device node to /etc/fstab, with appropriate > mount options. > > Just out of curiousity, what's the block size (the size occupied by a 1 byte > file) on a 1 TB fat32 drive? > > --Ken > > -- > Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. > Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. > http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
