On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:40:59 -0400 Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Still evaluating filesystem for my new external drive, I already have FAT32 drives but would like to be able to store big files on this one. Any issues using NTFS-3g with USB disks? (and large files)...

PD: Plan A, XFS

Regards,

-- Ciro Iriarte

Every once in a while I plug in a external USB drive and NTFS-3g tells me that the filesystem was not shutdown cleanly. It recommends having windows clean up the dangling journal entries and do a clean unmount.

I find the process pretty annoying. There is a force mount override, but I don't know how safe or dangerous that is.

Greg

FWIW, I've had no issues at all with oS 11.4 and rw access to various sizes / models of Seagate 'Free Agent' external USB drives, either "before" (NTFS) or "after" (ext3, ext4) hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2011/7/19 Greg Freemyer :

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Still evaluating filesystem for my new external drive, I already have FAT32 drives but would like to be able to store big files on this one. Any issues using NTFS-3g with USB disks? (and large files)...

PD: Plan A, XFS

Regards,

-- Ciro Iriarte

Every once in a while I plug in a external USB drive and NTFS-3g tells me that the filesystem was not shutdown cleanly.  It recommends having windows clean up the dangling journal entries and do a clean unmount.

I find the process pretty annoying.  There is a force mount override, but I don't know how safe or dangerous that is.

Greg

Thanks for the inputs, I'm using XFS for the time being... Only annoying thing is UID@home != UID@Office != UID@laptop Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org