Re: Multiple partitions on external USB HDD?

On 2007-06-26, Olaf <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

I'd even limit the to 2 GB.

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.

No need for it. Multiple partitions on USB are no problem.


Using /dev/disk/by-uuid helps with the problem of changing device names
with usb-devices
Why not. But giving a disk a label is enough. Doesn't work with Reiser, but
who'd want to use that on an USB drive? And using ext3 is not that great,
eighter. Stick to ext2, I'd say.

Just give the partitions a label (ext2label for ext2/3, can't remember what
tools I used for fat.
Has the advantage to show up with the same name on other systems, too.


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