Re: Multiple partitions on external USB HDD?

Dances With Crows wrote:
Hendric Stattmann staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I have recently bought a 2.5" external USB disk, 120G. It comes with
one FAT32 partition. I want to use it as backup for one Win XP and
one Linux (Suse 10.2) box.

Unfortunately, FAT32 does not allow files bigger than 4GB, and I
[couldn't get] the tar option "--multi-volume" to work with a single
medium. (If someone would be able to give me a hint there

tar cO (dirs to tar up) | split --bytes=4000000000 - filename

...splits tar's output into chunks slightly smaller than 4G into
filenameaa , filenameab, filenameac ... filenamezz. "cat filename* |
tar xf -" to restore.

does [kernel] 2.6.18 handle NTFS writing in a way that I can safely
write ~15 GB tar files on it?

Install and use ntfs-3g and the FUSE package and kernel module. It has
worked pretty well for me, but I was only using it for small things and
to see if it worked. There may be unresolved problems and you might run
into those--caveat user.

Would SuSE 10.2 properly recognize, i.e. (auto)mount a [USB device
with multiple partitions, one FAT32, one ext3]?

Automounters suck, but I think it'd work appropriately. HTH,


yes they DO suck.

I prefer a fix mount-point in /etc/fstab.

Using /dev/disk/by-uuid helps with the problem of changing device names with usb-devices

Olaf
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