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From: Gilbert on 12 May 2010 13:55 SWMBO (bless her) came home with a 1Tb Verbatim external USB drive as a prezzie tonight. Unfortunately its a USB 2.0 connection and my ancient old box only has 1.1 slots. No matter - it works albeit a tad slower than it should. 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 Regards
From: Kevin Nathan on 12 May 2010 14:03 On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:55:15 +0300 Gilbert <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >SWMBO (bless her) came home with a 1Tb Verbatim external USB >drive as a prezzie tonight. > >It's pre-formatted FAT32 so that won't be staying long, which >brings me to the point. Any partitioning suggestions? > > I have mine as a single XFS partition and just divided up by directories for the various parts I keep on it. It's been working fine the whole time (about six months). My only problem is I have to unplug for a reboot, but that is done so seldom I haven't taken the time to investigate it... :-) -- Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA) Linux Potpourri and a.o.l.s. FAQ -- (temporarily offline) Open standards. Open source. Open minds. The command line is the front line. Linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-default 11:00am up 47 days 23:47, 17 users, load average: 0.25, 0.13, 0.10
From: J G Miller on 12 May 2010 15:11 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>
From: Eef Hartman on 14 May 2010 07:54 Gilbert <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Unfortunately its a USB 2.0 connection and my ancient old box > only has 1.1 slots. No matter - it works albeit a tad slower > than it should. Get a cheap USB 2.0 board. I did, for my old Pentium-3 800 MHz and the 1 TB disk (WD MyBook, in my case) works up to speed. > 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. -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** *******************************************************************
From: Backpacker on 14 May 2010 22:54
Gilbert 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 What I did with mine, as I boot into WinXP occasionally to use Lightroom, was divide it into two equal partitions: half FAT32 and half ext3. I use it primarily for backup purposes but also for storing music, photos and videos. Since I hardly use Windows (as little as possible, in fact) I backup my XP stuff to the FAT32 half along with all of my multimedia, so that half gets good use. The Linux partition is used for backing up all of my documents, manuals, data, system files, home directories, and anything else for which I want to keep full permissions on the files. -- Backpacker |