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Steve Lee wrote: > Heh, I've just been through this and went for a networked device in > the end as it offers several advantages. I tried a Seagate and looked > at Western digital USB devices before getting a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo > which is not cheap but of good quality. I recently bought an external disk and looked at NAS but ended up getting USB. The main reason was that I highly doubt that it can be formatted as ext2/3 or that it can be used as a block device. AFAIK these are only accessible via ftp or smb. Can anyone confirm/deny this? Thanks. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html