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From: nospam on 17 Nov 2009 04:33 In article <hds98t$8g0$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Justin <justin(a)nobecauseihatespam.com> wrote: > > Just curious: What would you use it for if you could? Fixing problems > > with Linux disks? > > I would like to be prepared. If a client sends me a hard drive > formatted to ext3, points a gun to my head and tells me to read from it. > It isn't a problem *yet* but its something that I can see an an issue in > the future. maybe you should find clients who are a bit less violent. or just send them to someone else and let them point the gun at them.
From: Paul Sture on 17 Nov 2009 09:59 In article <161120090935257674%bruck(a)math.usc.edu>, Ronald Bruck <bruck(a)math.usc.edu> wrote: > I suppose you could use it to share data between your MacOS X and your > Linux partitions. But I dunno why; I keep a small volume formatted as > (shudder!) fat32 for this purpose. Both OS X and Linux recognize it. I agree that this is sometimes the way to go (I used FAT16 on a dual boot NT4/Linux system, since NT4 didn't understand FAT32). Just be aware of the file size limitations on FAT32. <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463> "You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition." -- Paul Sture
From: Justin on 17 Nov 2009 20:31
Paul Sture wrote: > In article <161120090935257674%bruck(a)math.usc.edu>, > Ronald Bruck <bruck(a)math.usc.edu> wrote: > >> I suppose you could use it to share data between your MacOS X and your >> Linux partitions. But I dunno why; I keep a small volume formatted as >> (shudder!) fat32 for this purpose. Both OS X and Linux recognize it. > > I agree that this is sometimes the way to go (I used FAT16 on a dual > boot NT4/Linux system, since NT4 didn't understand FAT32). > > Just be aware of the file size limitations on FAT32. > > <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463> > > "You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte > less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition." > I create files bigger than 4GB on a daily basis in video editing. fat32 is not an option. exfat would be nice, but of course MS won't release the specs - it will have to be reverse engineered. Like I said, NTFS on jump drives is working for now, but I like to have options. |