Re: What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous
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on April 18, 2008 12:24 AM
Anonymous said:
"Fat 32 does not respect linux permission but a tar archive does."
I agree. Use fat32 for the compatibility with all OS's and use tar/gzip/zip to create ~4GB spanned chunks. This way, you get the best of both worlds: compatibility and functionality. After all, isn't that what tar, gzip and zip were originally designed for?
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Re: What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 74.53.155.214] on April 18, 2008 12:24 AM"Fat 32 does not respect linux permission but a tar archive does."
I agree. Use fat32 for the compatibility with all OS's and use tar/gzip/zip to create ~4GB spanned chunks. This way, you get the best of both worlds: compatibility and functionality. After all, isn't that what tar, gzip and zip were originally designed for?
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