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

[Joel Fouse]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 03:15 -0500, DonJr wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 02:33 -0500, maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, DonJr wrote:
> > 
> > > I just got a USB connected hard drive, says "500G" on the box. (but)
> > > Plugged it in and Gnome(i guess) mounted it at "/media/My Data".
> > 
> > > What would be a good format to use for the filesystem on it?
> > 
> > I've got four external drives of various sizes from 120 to 300 connected to my 
> > laptop.  I'm using ext3 based on the maturity of the filesystem and the 
> > familiarity of the tools..
> 
> So these external hard drive(s) {USB, Firewire or eSATA} with a "real"
> disk drive in them can in general be treated just the same as an
> internal drive?
> 
> This one is called a "My Book" by Western Digital
> 


Oh, absolutely.  Just for kicks I've even set up partitions on a USB key
and formatted one piece as ext3 for my purposes and one as fat32 for
passing things to others in the office. ;)

- Joel
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