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

[william oakes]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 10:22, DonJr wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 09:23 -0500, Joel Fouse wrote:
> > 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
>
> I done some of the same with my 2G key (under $30 when I got it).
> My larger ones current have files on them that I access from systems
> running XP.
>
> But this "My Book" is different in that there is a "real" spinning hard
> drive inside it and I'd like to at least give it chance to last for a
> while.

Hi Don,

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.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Bill...
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