On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:03 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 08:31, James Pifer wrote: > > I have 160 gig hard disk installed in a USB 2 enclosure. > > > > What is the best file system to put on it? > > > > It would be nice to be able to plug it into both Linux and Windows > > machines. Obviously NTFS is not an option. Windows can't read linux > > drives. So what does that leave me with? > > > > Linux is my primary choice, so I put ext3 on it using qtparted. > > > > When I plug it into my laptop, the light on the usb enclosure flashes, > > but I don't see anything under /media. Is there any way to force a > > refresh? /etc/fstab has this: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk ext3 > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > Once I get that working, how do I deal with permissions since my userid > > will not be able to write to it? Should I give my userid ownership of > > /media/usbdisk? Will those permissions "stick" when I remove and plug > > the drive in again? > > > > Got some of it working. /media/usbdisk wasn't there so I created it and > gave my userid permissions. Now when I plug in the drive I get the > Removable Device icon on the desktop and I can open it, read/write, etc. > Still looking for suggestions on the file system if anyone has one. > > Thanks, > James > James, Vfat, I think, is your only choice for both windows and Linux. We have a USB/Firewire drive here and I found that using vfat is the easiest way. There appears to be a 2 GB file size limitation for vfat. To get around this, I formatted mine as ext3 and shared it via samba. While not a portable solution it works in the office. Bob...
