Re: I need some advice on BIG external storage units

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I need some advice on BIG external storage units
\ Tom Rausner (9 May 2008)
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Subject:	Re: I need some advice on BIG external storage units
Group:	Ubuntu-users
From:	Steven Davies-Morris
Date:	11 May 2008

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/10/2008 08:40 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Peter Frenning [OZ1PIF] wrote:
>>
>>> Not a problem with mine....
>>> BTW: I normally format them NTFS, that generally works with every system
>>> I've thrown them at, while ext3 or other *nix/*nux filesystems aren't
>>> recognized by Windoze...
>> While that may not be a problem in your situation, I would note that
>> there are situations I've run into where NTFS is mounted read-only.
>> NTFS drivers for Linux have relatively recently migrated to being RW
>> with stability.
>>
>> For cross-platform use, I'd first recommend using FAT32. Everything and
>> their cousin reads and writes to it but it does have security problems.
>> In select cases I've encapsulated filesystems in other files to
>> preserve metadata (DMG images for the Mac, for example) so they can be
>> stored on FAT32.
>
> FAT32 has a 4GB file limitation - 4 GiB minus 1 "Null" Byte (232-1
> bytes), volume limitation of 32GB, and is no longer actually maintained
> is it?

I've got 4 NTFS partions that I'm doing READ/WRITE with under Hardy
Heron. Three of them are huge SATA drives and 1 is a partition on my
main *nix drive. I also have 1 FAT32 partition (500gb) that will go
away as soon as I'm done getting this new box organized (with Virtualbox
for the few Windows apps I have to have and another virtual for playing
with the Leo4All "Hackintosh"). A year ago I'd have said use FAT32, but
now I see no reason not to keep anything Windows-ish in NTFS.
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