What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 76.203.49.175]
on April 16, 2008 10:13 PM
I need >4 GB file access. Ext3 has been my choice, since you can almost guarantee access to Linux via liveOS but not Win. Multiple liveCD copies is a good solution (I carry several), with the most hardware-robust (Knoppix, DSL, Puppy, your fav?) being most reliable. Simpler is best in such cases. Also one of the system rescue distros would be handy. Note that flash drives don't scratch. I haven't had problems with NTFS-3g, but that version is only ~1 year old - before that writing wasn't good, right?
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What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.203.49.175] on April 16, 2008 10:13 PM#