On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:43:46PM -0400, David A. Woyciesjes enlightened us:
Scott Silva wrote:
David A. Woyciesjes spake the following on 3/29/2007 6:29 AM:
I'm going to be setting up a machine at home, for keeping backup copies of my data & software... the "server" is going to be a dual boot W2K/Linux machine, and I'll have MacOSX, W2K, and Linux clients accessing this over the network... ... I have a 60GB drive, and 2 80GB drives for it... ...I have an external 300GB drive with NTFS format...
The best common denominator would be fat32 on the external. Linux, Windows, and I think even the Macs can read and write to it. The biggest limit to fat32 is the maximum of 2 gig file sizes. Have you thought about just looking for an old PII PC in a garage sale and just making it a server? You could use something as simple as Freenas and make it a network storage point.
Thought about it, and discarded it. IIRC, there is a ~32GB partition limit for FAT32. Or at least WinXP won't create them bigger than that. Considering the files I'll be storing, I don't want to deal with 3+ different partitions on the external drive. :)
Time for a number check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32 claims 4GB filesize, and 8TB partition size. the 32GB partition limit is a WinXP-ism to make people use NTFS.
Matt