[Novalug] Recommendation: USB Large harddrives?400G(and?up)?What is a good filesystem to use?

[Mark Smith]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:27:26PM -0500, william oakes wrote:
> I presently have a 1Tb My Book that I have formated as fat32 in order to 
> utilize with both my winxp box and my linux box.  The only problem is that I 
> have to split large files into 2Gb pieces.  If I were only using it with my 
> linux box, I would use Ext3.

i think another problem with fat is the permissions.  for one thing,
the permissions are based on the uid of the mounter, not on individual
uid/gid's on each of the files (there are none).  aren't all the file
modes the same too?  i don't use it enough to remember accurately.
this may be an issue for you to review.

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Mark Smith
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