[Leaplist] got myself a lil usb drive

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

I will say that if you ever intend to use that drive across multiple OS's,
you'll find it to be a difficult task to put FAT32 _back_ onto it. Windows
no longer _allows_ you to format a drive on FAT32 (with either XP-64 Pro
or Vista Ultimate, at least). Eventually, I was able to find some linux
utilities that could actually format the thing under FAT32 (which I needed
to backup my PS3 hard drive - it _only_ understood FAT32). If this is not
a concern for you, I see no reason not to convert it to ext4.
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:34 pm, Tom Foster wrote:
> Inspired by some recent posts, I got a seagate 320g freeagent
> external drive.  One of the little ones.  I got this instead of the
> western digital whatever that was right next to it.  same capacity,
> same form factor, same price.  I have two questions.
>
> Did I choose the right drive?  should I have gone with the western
> digital?
>
> Also, I'm going to get rid of whatever backup software comes on
> the thing, but was wondering if I should keep the (I'm assuming) vfat
> filesystem on it or put ext3 or 4 on it instead while I'm at it.
>
> It's not out of the box yet--it's still very easily returned or
> exchanged.  whatduyu think?
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> -tom
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