Re: Suggestion for backing up data

In message <1149062459.419071.13670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"R. P." <compnerd2032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm planning on doing some repartitioning of a SuSE 9.2 box that
currently has a 99% reiserfs and 1% swap setup. Although I've got about
60GB used on that hard drive, I don't want to back up everything (just
the data files) and would rather do the copying out manually. This is
because I may decide to upgrade SuSE later on.

I estimate there is about 50GB of data to backup. I want the data to be
accessible to both Windows and Linux systems. I thought of copying it
to a FAT32 hard disk, but FAT32 has a 8GB disk limit so it would be a
pain to backup all 50GB.

Are you sure about that? I've got a 120GB FAT32 disk here, mounted on
Linux, and accessible to Windows.

FAT16 has a 2GB limit, I'd expect FAT32 to be 2^16 larger.

There might be an 8GB file size limit.


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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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