Re: question about external drives
2006-03-01 18:01:02
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.
> compatibility?
Yes.
> security?
On a portable drive? Guess you would need to use an encrypted
filesystem.
> sloth?
Nope, repartitioning and formatting doesn't take long.
Since I don't build any MS filesystem support into my Linux
server kernels, ext3 is a much easier solution.
At home, where the drive may be sometime needed on XP as well
as Linux, I leave mine as FAT-32.
Frank
>
> Thanks for the input. My drives arrive tomorrow. :)
>
>
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