Current Suse9.1, new SATA drive for Win Share

jch0rd · 10-01-2005, 04:18 PM

I have Suse9.1 on small IDE drive. Bought new SATA drive I would like to use for Windows intranet share drive. I want to backup data from 2 windows XP Pro systems. I need to partition the drive and then maybe load windows(only if necessary)?? I have no real need for dual boot unless that is the only way to format SATA drive with NTFS.

abisko00 · 10-02-2005, 07:36 AM

Not quite sure how you plan to share the new drive. If you are using a samba server, there is no need to format the drive NTFS. You can use any Linux filesystem. But maybe I got you intentions wrong...

jch0rd · 10-02-2005, 11:45 AM

I was intending to use Samba but have only read a little about it. As for formatting/partitioning the drive what should I use?

abisko00 · 10-03-2005, 02:06 AM

You can use any Linux filesystem. SUSE uses reiserfs, but ext3 would be fine as well, I guess. Your data will be shared through the smb network protocol (samba server). That does not require a Windows-formated partition.