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Hi folks,

 

 

Ubuntu 8.04

 

 

I have an USB external cabinet mounted an ATA 40G HD with 2 partitions running.  I'll use it as portable storage device keeping working data.  Most of them are .txt, .jpg, .pdf, etc. files.  The said device is used mainly on Linux PC.  What will be the ideal system to be formatted on it?  FAT32?

 

If I expect the data can be read on M$Windows PC then what ideal system shall I use/format?

 

TIA

 

 

B.R.

satimis

If you plan to use it with Windows as well, I'd go with NTFS

Hi Mchl,

 

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Can Linux read NTFS directly without adding some packages?

 

If only on Linux PS which FS shall be used, ext2 OR ext3?

 

 

B.R.

satimis

NTFS filesystems are still allot of work on most Linux distros, Id go with fat32 if you want portability.

Hi thorpe,

 

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

FAT32 has some limit.  It can only support 2G capacity.

 

I have been doing a stupid way for some times, transferring files between PCs running M$Windows and Linux respectively.  I make use of an USB stick, copying files from Windows PS on it.  Then from the USB stick I copy files to Linux PC and vice versa.

 

One further thought if the PCs are in the same LAN can I run ssh and scp to do the job?  Can I install ssh and scp on M$Windows?  TIA

 

 

B.R.

satimis

 

I have been doing a stupid way for some times, transferring files between PCs running M$Windows and Linux respectively.

 

Sounds like you should look into samba. Samba will allow you to easily share directories between windows and Linux.

 

One further thought if the PCs are in the same LAN can I run ssh and scp to do the job?  Can I install ssh and scp on M$Windows?

 

Again, samba would be a more convinent solution. There is an ssh client for windows (google putty), and also scp (same people who provide putty), but that solution will quickly become tiresome.

Sounds like you should look into samba. Samba will allow you to easily share directories between windows and Linux.

Ah I almost forget Samba.  But I must install Samba on all PCs.  It involves some work.

 

Others noted with thanks.

 

 

B.R.

satimis

Emm... no... you only need to install samba on the server. Windows PC then just these drives as network shares.

Unless you actually need to move these drives from PC to PC... but this doesn't make much sense... unless I'm missing something.

Emm... no... you only need to install samba on the server. Windows PC then just these drives as network shares.

Unless you actually need to move these drives from PC to PC... but this doesn't make much sense... unless I'm missing something.

Hi Mchl,

 

What I need is to transfer files between PCs.  Since all Linux PCs have SSH server and clients running, it would be easier for me to install Putty on Windoz PCs instead of installing Samba on all PCs.

 

B.R.

satimis

Samba is only installed on the server as Mchl said this is true... on the windows clients you do not need to install Samba client but you do have to install the Samba client on your linux clients. Fat32 CAN work but i would not do it. NTFS is better but on linux i would use exe3.

Samba is only installed on the server as Mchl said this is true... on the windows clients you do not need to install Samba client but you do have to install the Samba client on your linux clients. Fat32 CAN work but i would not do it. NTFS is better but on linux i would use exe3.

 

Thanks for reiterating.

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