Agree, however there is a 4G limit for file sizes under FAT32 -- not sure if there is a technical solution for that. You may want to have a small NTFS and linux ext? partition for staging files that you can write larger files to so that it can be split into smaller files like zip, rar, etc.
Jamie Furtner wrote: > FAT32 does support disks larger then 32 GB, you just can't format them in > Windows XP - though it reads them fine once they are formatted. Windows > 2000 or Linux can format large disks with no issues. Windows doesn't > support most other filesystems, so you're stuck with FAT or NTFS > > I'd suggest pulling the data off the disk and reformatting it to FAT32 to > achieve your goal. > > Jamie > > > On Wed, March 29, 2006 8:51 am, Roy Souther wrote: > >> I need my system to be able to let uses read and write to USB drives and >> memory devices when they plug them into their local station. When a user >> inserts a USB device I have the system locate the user ID by the owner of >> the DISPLAY session. The device is then mounted in their home directory. >> For USB memory sticks I use the UID and GID so that all >> entries on the device are owned by them and they have full rights. This >> works great for small USB memory sticks that come pre-formated as vfat >> because vfat supports the UID and GID options. >> >> New problem. Someone wants to plug in an 80GB external USB drive. The >> drive came as NTFS. Linux cannot write to NTFS in any way that a Windows >> system could read the data back. Vfat does not support partitions larger >> then 32GB and ext2 & 3 do not support UID or GID so the system is owned by >> root. >> >> I would like some way to make the mounted 80GB drive ext2 or ext3 and >> owned by the user that inserted the device just the same way I do with >> small USB memory sticks. I cannot figure out any way to do that. >> Everything I have tried has failed and only root can write to the drive. >> >> >> Linux has an NTFS DLL wrapper that will use the Windows DLL's to write >> to the drive so that Windows can read them but I don't think I am allowed >> to distribute those DLL's. I really need an unencumbered solution. >> >> So I am looking at all the different FS types that Linux supports, there >> are a lot. Can you give me your input on what FS to use? Do any FS types >> support large size and UID/GID that both Linux and Windows can read? >> >> >> Royce Souther >> www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. >> >> >> For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > -- > Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "I aim to misbehave" > - Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie) > "It's not safe... > "For them." > - River Tam (Serenity movie) > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
