Re: external hard drive

[Craig E Ziegel <mwtransport@wisperhome.com>]

thank you Doc

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:17:45 -0600
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 12:32 -0600, Craig E Ziegel wrote:
> > I am sorry to ask this again, I saw a few emails about this a few
> > weeks ago. I just got a 500 gig external drive. I believe there was
> > some discussion about ext3/ext4 partition which was better? I have
> > 1 winblows pc the lady uses and the rest are Linux powered. So the
> > partition if possible would need to be accessible with winblows and
> > Linux. If you don't mind repeating yourself please respond thank you
> 
> Craig,
> 
> "Accessible" has at least two possible meanings, each with a different
> answer to your question.
> 
> If you mean your wife would connect this external drive directly to
> the USB port on her Windows PC, then FAT32 is probably the only
> format you can realiably read/write using both operating systems.
> 
> If you connect it to one of your Linux systems, you could format it to
> ext3/4 and set up Samba to share some or all of it to your wife as a
> network drive. With Gigabit Ethernet she'll never know it's not
> connected locally. Even with 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet it should be
> plenty fast enough.
> 
> --Doc
> 
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