ext2/3 on USB?

[Carl Parrish]

Hmmm that may explain why I can't see all of my USB drive. I have a 512M
but all I can view in Linux is 10Mb. I've set it aside as a project to
be fixed "when I have time" (hahaha yeah right). Perhaps I should try to
just reformat it.

der.hans wrote:
>
> 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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