[Sheflug] backup to USB Hard drives and partitioning

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have any experience of using USB hard drives with Linux?  Ones
like the Maxtor One Touch drives.  I would like to know if you can partition
them and reformat them with whatever file system you want.  I don't fancy
having all my data on plain old fat32 but I don't want it locked in ntfs or
reiserfs where I can't get at it from somewhere else.  I was thinking of
partitioning the drive to use Linux and XP with a "shared" partition for
files I want to swap between the two.

It would be great for storing service packs, patches etc rather than having
to burn them to CD all the time.  Just plug it in and have a cron download
all the latest files to the disk.  Then when visiting clients, friends
parents without broadband you've got all the latest files on hand as well as
obviously having an offsite backup of all your data.

Chris Johnson
(No not that one, the other one!)
(running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))



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