<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">so then:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">run cfdisk and then:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> mkfs.ext3 <device> -L<name></span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">so if I forget to unnmount it fsck won't be necessary.</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">I usually use a backup drive bigger than all my drives, that way I can keep older versions of my backups.</p></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">////</p><p style="font-size:12.8px">Won't work, the reason I'm going to be using the 64 gig sd card is I ran out of space on my 32 gig usb drive.</p><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Bob Elzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.elzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.elzer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Just a thought, but not counting the flash drive, what are the size of your disks? </p>
<p dir="ltr">I usually use a backup drive bigger than all my drives, that way I can keep older versions of my backups. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I do a daily rsync of my data files and then tar them to a single file.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Plus I make an fsarchiver copy of the OS drive.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This way if I mess something up and a backup happens before I realize it, I can get an older good copy.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sep 16, 2016 5:24 AM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">I was sitting here considering how one names drives. I did it once but it was at least a year ago and my memory is bad (at it's best). And so I was going to google 'name filesystem' or something like that when that little voice inside my head cried out 'label'. So I opened a terminal and 'apropos label' and discovered that little voice inside my head can sometimes be right!<div><br></div><div>Anyways, there are a few options I could use. I still want to retain msdos properties so I can switch it between machines and..... wait! This is for my backup drive on a 64gig sd card. So I can make it a linux filesystem!</div><div>So then:</div><div><br></div><div>first make a partition on the device with cfdisk (ref linux fromscratch) then</div><div><br></div><div> mkfs.ext2 <device> -L<name></div><div><br></div><div>Do I need to do anything else because of the size of the card?</div><div>Should I do a different filesystem type?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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