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

[Ken Kauffman]

Polite clarification --

Yes. You can treat it the same as far as managing the device.

Just keep in mind the performance changes based on interface.  eSATA will
give you the greatest performance gain over USB and Firewire.

Ken

On Feb 3, 2008 9:23 AM, Joel Fouse <joel at fouse.net> wrote:

>  On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 03:15 -0500, DonJr wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 02:33 -0500, maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.comwrote:> 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 aninternal 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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