[Wylug-help] External USB Disk

[Martyn Ranyard]

Hi Smylers,

  What I do is have a small FAT16 partition and on it have the EXT2 IFS
driver for windows (2k+)... but it's not a brilliant way to deal with the
problem.

  FAT32 does indeed get rather bloody wasteful at large sizes, but NTFS
support was (at my last attempt with it) flakey.

  Of course there's also the problem then of OS/X compatibility.

  Another option is to use FAT32 and loopback files, but then you're still
limited to a max file size of 2Gb.

--
Martyn

2009/10/28 Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com>

> Hi there.  I'm thinking of getting am external USB disk, such as this
> one from Buffalo with 1 Tb of storage for £70:
>
>  http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33798
>
> When I get it, what filesystem should I use?
>
> Mostly I'll be using it with Linux, but it would be nice to have the
> option of taking it elsewhere and connecting it to others' computers,
> including those running other operating systems.
>
> Is Fat32 viable with such big disks?  Is Linux's NTFS support any good
> these days?
>
> Does using a Windows-compatible filesystem mean that a file loses Unixy
> things such as the execute flag when copied to the disk and back again?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Smylers
>
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