Just a thought, but not counting the flash drive,  what are the size of
your disks?

I usually use a backup drive bigger than all my drives, that way I can keep
older versions of my backups.

I do a daily rsync of my data files and then tar them to a single file.

Plus I make an fsarchiver copy of the OS drive.

This way if I mess something up and a backup happens before I realize it, I
can get an older good copy.

On Sep 16, 2016 5:24 AM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
> 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!
> So then:
>
> first make a partition on the device with cfdisk (ref linux fromscratch)
> then
>
>      mkfs.ext2 <device> -L<name>
>
> Do I need to do anything else because of the size of the card?
> Should I do a different filesystem type?
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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