[ale] Disk Format Question - Best choice for 500 Gig?

[Greg Freemyer]

On 3/12/07, Brian Pitts <bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu> wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> >
> > Am I nuts? Is there a better choice of format or better
> > approach altogether?
> >
> There's an ext2 driver for OS X and Windows. I'd prefer it to a
> filesystem that has a 4GB filesize limit and, in my experience, corrupts
> data every chance you give it.
>

We still use FAT32 a lot for portability reasons.  I don't think we
lose data very often.

First we strictly enforce nothing over 2GB.  I'm not sure why since
officially it can handle 4GB.  (We use split to break apart any files
bigger than that.)

Also for big drive like that you will want to partition it from Linux
not from Windows.  In their infinite wisdom M$ has decided you don't
need a fat partition bigger than 32GB, so their tools don't let you
format anything bigger than that.

Another option might consider is NTFS.  I have not tried them but
apparently their is much better NTFS support now via FUSE than their
used to be.  I think full read/write support is there.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
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