On Monday 11 August 2008 23:25, Brian Wells wrote: > I'm looking at an alternative utility, svn-backup-dumps, in the same > package. I could do ~800 full backups, or many more incremental backups > with a full backup here and there, before running out of space. That > would only write most blocks once or twice, and once it filled up I > could erase old backups with only one write and reuse it, right? (If I > do this, should I reformat to FAT so the controllers won't be confused?)
If you're worried about not confusing the controllers, you could create a vfat fs normally in the device and then make a file in it, like dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/usbdisk/ext3.fs bs=1M count=4000 and then make an ext3 filesystem in that file, like mkfs.ext3 -L my_backup_fs /media/usbdisk/ext3.fs You will be able to mount this file with the -o loop option and make your backups there :) But anyways... I'm not sure that those controllers even deal with data in fs-level. > > Thanks, > Brian -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]