On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Frank Smith wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > Some of you are undoubtedly using external hard drives
> > that are USB or FireWire connected.  Perhaps as your
> > holding disk or for virtual tapes.
> > 
> > These drives seem to come formatted with FAT-32 file
> > systems.  I wonder how people handle them.
> > 
> > Do you leave your external drives as FAT-32 or do you
> > reformat to something like ext2 or ext3?
> 
> If I'm only going to be using it on Linux I reformat to ext3.
> If I'm expecting to sometimes use it on Windows boxes I leave
> it FAT-32.
> > 
> > What considerations went into your decision?
> > 
> >  features of one type FS vs another type?
> No.

Isn't there a file size limit with FAT32, which may bite when using it as a
holding disk or for virtual tapes?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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