ext2/3 on USB?

[Mark Jarvis]

Mine Deutsch is very rusty, so I googled "schwätzte". Hmmmph!

 > I just use fdisk or something similar and mkfs.
	Of course--for some reason I forgot I don't care about preserving the 
current contents of the drive. DUH!

-mj-

der.hans wrote:

> Am 02. Jun, 2006 schwätzte Mark Jarvis so:
> 
>> Thanks! What tool did you use to diddle the existing partition setup? 
>> I have a 512MB drive that I'd like to create a small 64MB ext3 
>> partition on.
> 
> 
> I just use fdisk or something similar and mkfs.
> 
> See Alan's post a few weeks ago about lifetime on consumer solid state
> devices.
> 
> I've been running ext2 and ext3 on external devices for years. I even
> setup RAID on my most recenth USB thumb drive :).
> 
> m$ will not be able to read the ext? partition.
> 
> The USB drive is effectively just a hard drive, so you can make multiple
> partitions, etc.
> 
> If you leave some room as fat$whatever, then m$ will be able to read that
> partition.
> 
> Wonder if it's possible to put samba or something on a fat partition that
> can read the ext? partition.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
> 
> 
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