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

[Trev Peterson]

If the backup data is fairly large (6 - 7+ GB) I do not think this will
work since fat32 has a pretty small max file size (4GB).  This can also
cause problem if you have any large files on the filesystem to be
backed-up.

I can offer 2 suggestions:
1. Partition the external drive to have a Linux partition (ext2, xfs
etc.) and a windows partition (ntfs).  This is quick and easy but is not
the most efficient use of your drive space.  If the drive is large you
may wish to do this though.

2. Format the partition ntfs and use ntfs-3g ( http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ )
to read/write to it.  I believe ubuntu feisty includes this by default.
This is more work (unless you are running feisty pre-release) but is
more efficient use of space (by a fair margin).

HTH

	Trev


On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 19:16 -0500, Keith T. Garner wrote:
> On 9/23/07 6:59 PM, Mark Stuart Burge wrote:
> > If you don't need to carry permissions, then you can format the drive to
> > fat32.
> 
> Of, if you don't mind a few extra steps, you could make a disk image of an
> ext2/3 partition and mount that via -oloop and do the rsyncs there.  That
> image will always take the space that image takes, but it's a trick to
> preserve the permissions and still use the disk under windows.

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Trev Peterson
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