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On 28/07/10 13:59, tom wrote:
On 28/07/10 13:54, Paul Sutton wrote:Hi Anyone got any recommendations regarding usb external hard disks, size about 500 to 1 tb would work fine for me, as a back up tool I take it most of these devices should just work with Linux, i see on boxes it says designed for PC / MAC. Just wondered what experiences people and if any should be avoided due to being poor quality build. PaulYou'll find most devices are NTFS formatted - they will work with linux quite happily but you'll have to mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /yourmountpoint to write to it
Or just reformat it as ext4 (or whatever). Anthony -- Author of C++ Concurrency in Action http://www.stdthread.co.uk/book/ just::thread C++0x thread library http://www.stdthread.co.uk Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL, UK. Company No. 5478976 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq