Re: FAT32 vs NTFS

From: Hal Vaughan (hal_at_thresholddigital.com)
Date: 03/02/05

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    On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:33 pm, Andy Rowan wrote:
    > At 12:13 PM 3/2/2005, Hal Vaughan wrote:
    > > > 1. Use ext3 on the firewire drive, and lose the ability to plug it into
    > > > a windows computer.
    > > > 2. Stick with fat32 but abandon rsync and go with something involving
    > > > tar. 3. Use two different firewire drives, one with fat32 for windows
    > > > backups and one with ext3 for linux backups.
    > >
    > >What about backing up the Linux files to a zip archive of some type? That
    > >way
    > >the filenames will remain the same internally. It won't help when those
    > > same files are extracted for Windows, but it might be easier to create a
    > > work-around, and the Linux filenames will stay the same for Linux use.
    >
    > Well, I want to avoid the tar or zip step for a couple of reasons. One is
    > that with rsync on the individual files, I can freshen the backup in a
    > matter of a couple of minutes and with no effort. The other is just that I
    > like the idea of being able to browse easily through the files on the
    > backup device, instead of having to open up archive files.

    Not to debate, but rsync can compress files. I don't know about other
    browsers, but Konqueror browses through most archives, just as if they were a
    directory, and I recall doing something similar on XP.

    > But actually, when I stepped away from the computer and had a chance to
    > think, I came up with option 3b: put two partitions onto the one firewire
    > drive, one fat32 and one ext3, and put the windows backups onto the fat32
    > and the linux ones onto the ext3. So I'm liking that idea.

    That sounds like the best solution of all!

    > If I repartition the external drive, and put the fat32 partition first,
    > then windows will just ignore the ext3 partition, right? I'm about to find
    > out.

    I would hope so. PartEd or something similar should do that. I'd do it from
    Linux, then check to make sure Windows sees the FAT32 partition before I use
    it.

    Hal

    >
    > -Andy 

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