John Mort wrote:
For what it's worth, there's an XP driver out there that lets it read ext3
which is really useful for dual environment situations.
Thanks, John! Did you mean http://www.fs-driver.org/ ? When I first
got this box, which came (unfortunately) with Vista, the version
available then didn't work with Vista. I just downloaded the latest
version, 1.11a, and installed it under Vista, and results were erratic.
It found all my Linux partitions (all ext3 except for swap), but 3 out
of 5 resulted in "unrecognized file type" and were unreadable. The
other two ext3 partitions it could read and write, including a file >
4.4GB. I don't know what made those two partitions any different from
the others.
Matthias Johnson wrote:
- Thanks for the pointer, Chris! I did some research online, and it looks
like FAT32
- can handle partitions up to 4 TB. Windows can't /create/ partitions over
32 GB,
- but it can use them without problems. It just means I'll have to use some
- third-party software to create it
But you will have another issue which is files cannot be larger than 4 Gig
which stops
your ability to save backups of DVDs or anything else you have that is
large. Even if
you don't have anything now that large it will be a real pain later on if
you do.
Ooh, I forgot about that -- thanks so much for reminding me! Yes, that
will be a problem. because files > 4G are certainly possible, especially
if I use 'tar' to combine files into an archive.
So I'm making progress. Looks like I either have to find a way to write
to an NTFS partition under Linux, or to read a Linux partition on a
Windows (and preferably Mac) system.
My "disaster scenario" is that I have to connect this USB HD to some
other system to retrieve data from the backup partition, and I don't
know in advance what kind of system that will be. I figure one can
never have too many backup plans! Thanks again, everyone, for sharing
your knowledge!
Adam
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