Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:17:34 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as
> > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32.
> > I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced
> > file system that has journalling, etc.
> >
> > So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I
> > need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3
> > format. So I used gparted to do this. But now when I mount the ext3
> > partition, only root can copy files to it. Why is that?
>
> Unless there's something that you've neglected to mention, it's
> because you haven't granted write permission on that directory tree
> to any other user or group.
>
The only thing I could think of was I ran gparted as root. Maybe if I
ran it off a live cd it would be different.
> > Also, what other file systems should I use?
>
> The obvious answer: whatever is writable by MSFT, Linux & OSX. It
> appears that ext2 can be be made to work on Windows and OSX.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#OS_support
>
Thanks for the reply.
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