Re: Verbatim 1TB external HDD

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
> What would people recommend in this situation?  Reformat or use FAT32?  And if 
> reformat, to what?  I think that his slightly aged computer would probably 
> blow a gasket if asked to use ext4, so am wondering about ext3.

I bought a 1TB disk yesterday for the same purpose. Since 1TB
filesystem sounds very scary I used LVM to create separate logical
volumes for each backup tree (I use incremental rsync trees with
hardlinks, google for more info). I used ext3 since it is stable and
supports resizing trivially).