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From: Shmuel Metz on 15 May 2010 21:19
In <slrnhum1kl.4df.houghi(a)penne.houghi>, on 05/12/2010
at 09:50 PM, houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> said:

>FAT16? Just kidding. Just use whatever you use as default on your
>system. And don't forget that the advantage of FAT is that you can
>read it from any OS without any problem.

Every time someone says "I don't believe in theories", another theory
dies. FAT16 is supported on most PC operating systems, but even with
FAT16 you can't read it from every OS.

BTW, do *bsd support FAT32?

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From: Wol on 21 May 2010 17:06
On May 12, 8:11 pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 20:55:15h +0300, Gilbert explained:
>
> > Unfortunately its a USB 2.0 connection and my ancient old box only has
> > 1.1 slots.
>
> If you have a spare PCI slot, you should consider buying one of these --
>
>        <http://www.dlink.COM/products/?pid=DU-520>

$35? That sounds expensive. Even at a £1-$1 exchange rate, I wouldn't
expect to pay more than £10 for a card like that.

Look around - if you're states-side I'd be surprised if you can't find
a card for $10 or so.

Cheers,
Wol
From: Wol on 21 May 2010 17:10
On May 14, 12:54 pm, Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hart...(a)tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Gilbert <nos...(a)nowhere.com> wrote:

>
> > It's pre-formatted FAT32 so that won't be staying long, which
> > brings me to the point. Any partitioning suggestions? Oh, and I
> > suppose that I ought to share it as a Samba drive as well so she
> > can back up her Win laptop
>
> If you need to (physically, not through the network) share it with
> MS-W, format it as NTFS, 1 BIG partition, and use ntfs-3g from Linux
> to access it.
> If only used IN Linux (even with samba share), format it ext3 or 4,
> again just a single partition. The standard "dir_index" attribute in
> openSUSE's /etc/mke2fs.conf
> will make even very large dirs quite acceptable in ext3.

Or get the "ext2 for Windows" installable file system - I've got it on
my dual-boot box. Just be warned, you need to make sure you use the
right options on mke2fs - something like the windows driver can only
cope with a 16-bit inode and most systems now default to a 32-bit
inode - either way if you get it wrong then it's a reformat to fix it
and you'll be cursing if you've actually already used the drive.

Cheers,
Wol
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