[HLUG] SATA drive question

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

i think best to have it as FAT32
which all operating systems can read and write to...

should be easy to drag folders onto it,
and to have lots of folders,

cheap and enough room to back up everything
even the weird unix folders which you dont understand
cos there might be a setting hidden away somewhere
and you'll only know when youve lost it and you need it..

and room for loads of photos, cds, xp stuff...





                   [george]

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From: <grhmc at lavabit.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:28 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] SATA drive question

> Taking George's advice on backing up wholesale to an external hard disk,
> my first step has been the purchase of a disk. It's got SATA drive so I
> need to know:
> 
> 1 Will it be easy from linux to do a backup of my complete home file to
> this external disk
> 
> 2 Could I also put other files on to the disk from a completely different
> system, eg a digital camera or an XP system.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Graham
> 
> 
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