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Re: [LUG] External hard drive

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> 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
my system has a USB drive connected through my router.  Router OS is 
Linux so it will format Linux or Windows.  Access speed is a little iffy 
though.

Kind regards,

Julian

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