Re: FAT32 vs NTFS
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:33 pm, Andy Rowan wrote:
> At 12:13 PM 3/2/2005, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > 1. Use ext3 on the firewire drive, and lose the ability to plug it into
> > > a windows computer.
> > > 2. Stick with fat32 but abandon rsync and go with something involving
> > > tar. 3. Use two different firewire drives, one with fat32 for windows
> > > backups and one with ext3 for linux backups.
> >
> >What about backing up the Linux files to a zip archive of some type? That
> >way
> >the filenames will remain the same internally. It won't help when those
> > same files are extracted for Windows, but it might be easier to create a
> > work-around, and the Linux filenames will stay the same for Linux use.
>
> Well, I want to avoid the tar or zip step for a couple of reasons. One is
> that with rsync on the individual files, I can freshen the backup in a
> matter of a couple of minutes and with no effort. The other is just that I
> like the idea of being able to browse easily through the files on the
> backup device, instead of having to open up archive files.
Not to debate, but rsync can compress files. I don't know about other
browsers, but Konqueror browses through most archives, just as if they were a
directory, and I recall doing something similar on XP.
> But actually, when I stepped away from the computer and had a chance to
> think, I came up with option 3b: put two partitions onto the one firewire
> drive, one fat32 and one ext3, and put the windows backups onto the fat32
> and the linux ones onto the ext3. So I'm liking that idea.
That sounds like the best solution of all!
> If I repartition the external drive, and put the fat32 partition first,
> then windows will just ignore the ext3 partition, right? I'm about to find
> out.
I would hope so. PartEd or something similar should do that. I'd do it from
Linux, then check to make sure Windows sees the FAT32 partition before I use
it.
Hal
>
> -Andy
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