Robert,
> Anybody know how to format a usb drive for use by YDL 6.2? Also,
> can this formatting be done on a Mac or a PC?
My experience is as follows:
a) I have never found a USB drive, factory or consumer
formatting that YDL cannot read by simply inserting
and then double-clicking on the "Computer" icon on the
Desktop.
b) Fat32 is the most common by factories, and the most
portable between multiple OSes.
c) However, if you are using the USB drive for any sort
of OS level backup or expansion, you may want to format
your USB drive as a native ext3.
d) If you are sharing the USB drive with OSX, you may
want to format it with OSX's native Extended format in
order that both YDL and OSX may share the files easily
and retain all UNIX based file information (see bottom
for more about OSX/ext3 file sharing).
e) If you are using rsync to backup from your YDL box
to a USB drive (as I do when I travel, keeping the USB bu
in a sep coat pocket or wallet), fat32 will choke as the
rsync command attempts to set permissions for each file
transferred and fat32 does not support this -- yes, the
files will transfer but an error will spew with each and
every file (annoying!).
On a side note, as I have my internal drive split into 3 major
partitions (YDL /, OSX /, and Data), I have "Data" formatted by OSX
even though it is used primarily by YDL (I only reboot into OSX to
watch .mov files).
In order that OSX and YDL may share these files seamlessly, I
edited /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to match my YDL user ID to that of
Mac OSX (500 in YDL, 501 in OSX) and then chown kstaats:kstaats to
all files in my /home/kstaats dir and wha-lah! I then
edited /etc/fstab to auto-mount the Data partition. OSX and YDL share
files without a glitch on the Data partition (thanks to Chris Murtagh
for the original instructions on this process).
A bit more than you asked for, but hopefully this helps.
kai
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