Tom Kuiper wrote:
Greetings everyone. I would like to be able to back up my daughter's Window XP PE laptop to a secondary drive on my Linux (only) system. Question 1: Should I make an NTFS partition or something else? Question 2: How can I format a filesystem that is 30 GB in size? Thanking you in advance Tom
If you're not interested in preserving file permissions on your daughter's WinXP machine (for most people it's needless, I would say--I certainly don't worry about it for my XP system) then I'd recommend setting up a fat32 partition on your linux machine to backup to. Setup a simple batch file on your daughter's machine to copy over the critical files for backup. I assume you're copying via a samba server running on your linux box...just use rsync to do the job.
Use cfdisk to create the partition, and mkfs.vfat to format it (make sure you RTFM, these are dangerous commands).