On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > >> Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? > > > > > > Because you need to access it from Windows too? > > > > To a backup device? Why? > > Don't Windows users need to backup? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Funny you should bring this up. Last week I was trying to get Gentoo onto my laptop but it wasn't stable. Problems in the kernel that aren't fixed earlier than 2.6.25 so I did a 'stage4' backup to save my work. It now resides on a USB disk. The machine itself had seemed somewhat unstable under Windows. Possibly it was the memory I bought from Crucial a couple of months ago. They've so I've just today done a complete restore of Win Vista from the HP Recovery Disk. (This is the firs full restore. In the middle I tried to get XP on the machine but there aren't any XP drivers for some of the hardware in the system, etc., so I gave up.) Anyway, I now have a Win Vista Home Premium install, clean when it finishes virus scan. I'm thinking I might as well treat data like data and just back up the windows partition just like I back up the Gentoo partitions, using Stage4 to do that and creating something I can reinstall using Gentoo quite easily. The only risky portion might be the quality of a Linux-based NTFS reinstall from the tar file but it seems I have little to lose by doing this. Any comments? - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
