On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 15:37, Chris Johnson wrote: > 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. Not that particular drive, but I have got a USB enclosure from overclock.co.uk and specialtech.co.uk. They worked as usb-storage devices. Yes you can use any filesystem and partition them under Linux. Unless you have working Firewire I'd avoid it- as in FC2 it went through an enabled/disabled/enable tantrum in the kernel. There is a program floating around the Internet somewhere that lets you mount ext2 under NT and NT like o/s's. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam [at] dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x553349DB
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