Re: ext2/3 on USB?

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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