On Tue, May 1, 2007 17:22, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 5/1/07, Kai Ponte <kai@perfectreign.com> wrote:
I ended up formatting it with FAT32.
I had someone fairly knowledgeable tell me that in the real world they are seeing problems when using FAT32 on 500GB and above drives. We've been using FAT32 for all our external drives too, but we are initiating the process of deciding if we want to go to EXT2 or NTFS for the future.
Unless you have to access the same drive from Windows, I would seriously avoid using FAT32. You are making backups because you value your data, after all.... :-) I'd much rather use ext3 if you need to read it from Windows. There is a driver called ifs2 or something like that, and Total Commander has had an ext2 driver for ages. They will both read ext3 but ignore the journal. I'm actually seriously considering going for one of these consumer network storage setups. This looks good but I have yet to figure out in what way the network connection work - if it's running samba internally or what: http://www.iomega-europe.com/item?SID=48661c9266d010983d95b9b4f405cd37737:4735&sku=131433681 Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org