[CentOS] Help setting up external drive via Firewire
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Aug 13 21:27:55 UTC 2008
On Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:47 AM +0200 Rainer Duffner
<rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Maybe format it with ext3?
> ;-)
The biggest problem with FAT32 is that it's limited to 2 GB files. My full
dump is 200 GB, and I've found the "one file" dump more reliable and
efficient than the multi-file feature, which breaks the dump into lots of
little 1 GB files.
I format mine with NTFS for OS interoperability and mount using the ntfs-3g
FUSE filesystem.
Say the partition is labeled "Backup1". Then I can mount it with:
mount /mnt/Backup /dev/disk/by-label/Backup1 -t ntfs-3g
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