Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

[Stephen]

This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies



On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> 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-----
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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,  <stevensspam at cox.net> 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
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