Quoth Preston Boyington: > I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be > a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require > any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? I think there are ways to mount a Fat32 with any given UID, problems is, as you mentioned, the permissions, which will get screwed up for sure. There are several concerns about Fat32 anyways: no journalling, so if it's a busy mirror with read-write access... baaad. Especially as an external. Performance? Fat32 is a worst-case scenario - again, if your mirror ain't that busy, there's no problem, but here's some doubt it'll be able to serve a busy server reliably. Why don't you just format it with a proper FS? I use ext3 for all my externals - if they need to be accessed with a Windows PC or a Mac, there's some OK drivers for them, and they mostly work. Fat32 is really just a fishy compromise. Aleks
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