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carlosinfl 03-26-2007 11:01 AM
USB External Drive
 
Yup - finally went out to Newegg and purchased a 750GB internal drive which will fit nicely into my Vantec USB external enclosure. The drive slides into the enclosure and connects to my Linux box as a regular USB device.

I am simply going to format the entire drive as Ext3 since I only use Linux at home and work but my question is what is the best way to do so? Should I simply use "fdisk" or "QTParted" to format the drive?

dracolich 03-26-2007 05:19 PM
When I did the same thing for my 160GB Maxtor, I first ran cfdisk to create the patition and establish the filesystem. Then I used mkfs.*** where *** is the filesystem.

carlosinfl 03-27-2007 04:14 PM
If I use ext3 or vfat, will I always have a Lost & Found directory mounted on the USB drive?

dracolich 03-27-2007 04:40 PM
ext2/3 will create a lost+found, but vfat will not. Keep in mind vfat may have to make a few partition and will still have a 2GB file size limit.

carlosinfl 03-27-2007 05:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by dracolich
ext2/3 will create a lost+found, but vfat will not. Keep in mind vfat may have to make a few partition and will still have a 2GB file size limit.
vfat has no problem utilizing my entire 60GB drive so I think you may be thinking about fat16 because my label ID in FDISK is "b" which is W95 FAT32.

Code:
Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sdc1              1        7295    58597056    b  W95 FAT32

dasy2k1 03-28-2007 08:12 AM
fat 32 still has a 4GB file size limit

i woudl just use Cfdisk to make a single partition and use
mke2fs -j to format as EXT3

carlosinfl 03-28-2007 08:50 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by dasy2k1
fat 32 still has a 4GB file size limit

i woudl just use Cfdisk to make a single partition and use
mke2fs -j to format as EXT3
How do I set a disk label on it so when it gets mounted on any machine, it shows up as "usb_drive". Can I set the disk label on the actual device or does that have to be specified in /etc/fstab?


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