What's a floppy ??? LOL Do they still make those ? -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:19 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer wrote: > FYI if you like, you can have the full drive use ext3. > > Using ext2ifs will let windows access your ext3/ext2 drive > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of > Alan Dayley > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, wrote: >> I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked >> external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one >> initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially >> googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly). Anyone > > We have a 1TB My Book that works just fine on Linux. Purchased it a > few months ago. I partitioned it half ext3, half FAT32 so we can use > it easily for different things. (For example, copying files from ext3 > to FAT32 causes permission settings to be lost so I want the ext3 on > the external drive > too.) > > Hate the name, "My Book" but it is working well for us so far. > > Alan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss