Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:00:14PM +0800, Jed R. Mallen wrote: Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS is better. It's better unless Linux also has to write to the partition. Last time I checked support for writing to NTFS was beta and strongly not recommended. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?
Will you need to ready that on windows? if not, the best is ext3 -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?
On 5/25/06, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS is better. If not, then ext3 is good enough. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape.
Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?
On 5/25/06, Jed R. Mallen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc Are you going to use winduhs to access this partition? I think NTFS is better. Oops. Better than FAT32 that is :) Forgot to add the last bit. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape.
Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 12:07, Richard wrote: Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc If you are planning to share this partition with windows and Linux then use fat32. If this partition is to be used exclusively in Linux then use ext3. The thing is, from windows, you can write to fat32 but you cannot write to ext3. fat32 : Can be read and written under Linux and windows. ext3 : Can be read in Linux and Windows. Cab be written in Linux. Cannot be written from windows. hth raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
