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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263