On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:30:00PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 11/7/05, Jan T. Kim jtk@cmp.uea.ac.uk wrote:
I plan to get myself an external USB hard disk, mainly for storing digital photos, scanned stuff etc. and for backing up the internal hard disk of my notebook.
Do any of you have any recommendations / warnings / experience with this, or similar USB hard disks? Personally, I don't expect any difficult issues, I'd expect the HD to appear as an SCSI device (/dev/sda or whatever), just as a USB flash stick... is that right, or am I naive?
Yes, it will appear as SCSI just like USB flash sticks.
Do you want to be able to read and write in Windows and Linux? I ask this because FAT32 partitions max out after about 120GB.
Thanks for your answer.
No, I don't have any intentions to use the HD with anything else other than Linux, so I was planning to use ext3fs or reiserfs... to be honest, I haven't thought about the fs too much.
Thinking of it, it might perhaps be reasonable to leave a few GB for a Microsoft compatible fs too, just in case something needs saving or shuttling...
Best regards, Jan