Kevan,<br><br>I don't intend to use the usb drive with Windows: even if Id id I would use the extfs plugin on a Windows PC. At first, I formatted the usb drive as ext3, but I ran into permissions problems re copying files (using cp) from /home to it. This seemed to be due to gconf-editor system/storage options. So I reformatted it as FAT32. I'll try again reformatting it as ext2.<br>
<br clear="all">Regards,<br>John<br>07894 211434<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/8 Kevanf1 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com">kevanf1@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/5/8 John Rose <<a href="mailto:john.aaron.rose@googlemail.com">john.aaron.rose@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> The disk used on my laptop is approximately 40GB. I want to back it up to a<br>
> usb 1TB drive, formatted as FAT32 (which also contains films as they're too<br>
> big for my laptop's disk). As I understand it, the max file size on a FAT32<br>
> device is 4GB. I don't see any option in gzip to split large resultant gzip<br>
> files. The best option seems to me to be to use Partimage, which allows<br>
> resultant split files.<br>
><br>
> So my thoughts are:<br>
> to backup the laptop disk partition (only one partition n the disk) to the<br>
> usb drive monthly, using th split files option,<br>
> to backup the /home directory to the usb drive monthly and occasional<br>
> incremental using Simple Backup,<br>
> possibly to separate the /home directory into a separate partition.<br>
><br>
> Is the above the best way to go?<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> John<br>
> 07894 211434<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Hi John. Now, I'll state right away I have not used this system that<br>
I'm about to describe.<br>
<br>
Are you using FAT32 because you need to use the 1TB drive with<br>
Windows? If so, you have another option that will allow bigger file<br>
sizes than 4gb. I believe you can use ext2 as the filesystem with a<br>
plug in for Windows so that it can read it. I don't know what the<br>
file size limit is for ext2 but I'm sure it's a lot bigger than 4gb.<br>
Would this help? FAT32 is also very wasteful of space so you'd<br>
utilise that drive far more efficiently.<br>
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Linux user #373362<br>
Staffordshire<br>
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