[Tfug] Portable USB hard drive

[Matthew T. Eskes]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:25 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, erich<erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> > A WD "My Book" that is.
> >
> >              I want to store movies/videos on it. Unfortunately it's comes
> > pre-formatted
> > with  [Id =  c] W95 FAT32 (LBA) ,and that doesn't take file sizes > 4G. You
> > call the store,
> > (SWS), and they say "format it with [Id = 86] NTFS". But I wonder if it's
> > better to  just
> > go ahead and format it with plain old [Id = 83] Linux. Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Erich
> 
> I always reformat new drives.  I'll usually split it up:
> 
> * Main chunk will be Ext3 (Ext4 soon if the support in Karmic looks OK).
> 
> * A smaller chunk in Fat32 just because it's a universal format usable
> between Mac/Win/Linux.
> 
> * IF I need to store a huge pile of small files, ReiserFS starts to make sense.
> 
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Hey Jim, Saw that you mentioned Ext4 and I thought I'd interject here.

I'm on the Karmic testing "team" if you will and I thought I'd let you
know that the EXT4 support in it is outstanding. I have it installed
system wide and the performance is quite nice, imo. I have had one
instance where I had reformat, however that was not caused by the ext4
driver as one would have thought in the beginning, but by the
suspend/hibernation driver in the kernel. So I highly recommend that you
check it out.

Matt