On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, James Wyatt wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:09 , Clayton Milos wrote:
I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g Western
Digital My Book). When I plug it in to my machine (RELENG_6 from about a
week ago), the system sees the device just fine:
I am very suprised at all that windows would allow you to format a 500G
drive into a single 500G FAT32 partition.
As far as I am aware windows 2000 and xp will only allow you to format up
to a 32G dive with FAT32. Any bigger and it will force you to use NTFS.
The other strange thing is tht you are trying to mount /dev/da0 and not
/dev/de0s1.
How did you format this drive ?
It comes formatted FAT32. I bought one last week as well, and tried to
mount it to extract the included software before repartitioning. I finally
mounted it on an OSX box to copy the software to CDR.
[ ... ]
I had the same issue with a Fry's $99 special 320GB USB2/FW exernal HDD.
Since I need to mount it with WinXP, Linux, and "GENERIC" FreeBSD, I was
somewhat stuck. The way I got around it was to reformat it to ext2 and use
the Win32 ext2fs driver from SourceForge. I considered NTFS, but the FreeBSD
support for NTFS didn't look practical to use at the time - Jy@
Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that if you're doing
tar/zip backups, then FAT32 may be worth the extra memory. If you are
doing file backups, then ext2 will better preserve the metadata you want
like UID, GID, permissions, etc... as well as avoiding the waste of small
files stored in mega-clusters. The ext2fs WinXP driver defaults to having
the write-cache disabled, so it's not a high-performance approach - Jy@
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