[LUNI] USB connected disk drive - connecting to Windows and Linux

[Mark Stuart Burge]

If you don't need to carry permissions, then you can format the drive to 
fat32.



Stephan V Bechtolsheim wrote:
> I have an HP notebook computer (running Windows XP) to which I want to connect a USB portable / external hard drive.
> That same USB portable hard drive I want to also be able to connect to a Linux computer for the purpose of backing it up
> (using rsync).
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> Anyone done that? Any suggestions how?
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> Thank you!
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> StvB
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> P.S. I have to admit that I am being lazy here in that I did not research the subject by myself at all. It's Sunday morning and right now I feel more like drinking coffee and reading my paper and not googling it ..... I was thinking though that that should work ......
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