On Wednesday May 13 2009, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
Hello all!
I am now able to report on the very latest development.
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Thus, we have narrowed the whole thing down to the source of error being either in the other disk or the other enclosure. The precise answer can of course be found by swapping the two disks and put the former one who failed to be partitioned into the new enclosure. Which is not a very big thing at all.
Great news! I hope the culprit is under warranty, especially if it's the drive.
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Feel free to comment, but before I swap the drives in order to find out, I would like to receive suggestions as to what file system I should choose. I originally thought to use FAT, but some of you advised against it in favor of Ext3. Personally I would like ReiserFS, but that is more difficult to read/write from/to from a Windows machine. Also, I have a MacBook Pro which to my knowledge can read neither ReiserFS nor Ext3. That would make FAT the preferred choice unless there are weighty reasons to go with something else.
Personally, I'm in the XFS crowd. FAT would be the only really bad choice. If Windows interoperability is a factor, then NTFS is your only good option. And, of course, if you need to interoperate with antique Windows systems that have only FAT, then you really have no choice.
Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
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