Choosing FS type for a backup disk
After having yet another HD crash... I bought an internal 250GB hard drive and a USB HD enclosure.
Am about to hook it up but wondering about the FS that I want to put on it.
Computers I will backup:
Computer 1 (2 drives, total ~35GB):
WindowsXP ntfs (using Norton Ghost 2003)
Computer 2 (the one that died) (1 drive - 200GB):
WindowsXP ntfs (using Norton Ghost 2003)
Slackware 9.1 reiserfs (using partimage? - Ghost's support for reiser doesn't look promising)
Computer 3 (1 drive - 20 GB):
Redhat 8 ext3 (using partimage?)
Have Slax on a CD (slackware on a bootable CD), but may get Knoppix for restoring the partimage files (never backed up a Linux box to date, so not 100% sure PartImage is the way to go, but reviews looked good)
Now on the new drive, I wasn't planning on installing an OS, just using it as a file store.
FS debates:
NTFS - don't want to use since Linux will not be able to write to it, only read (at least without working forever on it)
FAT32 - could write from both OSs (WinXP & Linux), but it is limited to a max file size of 4GB which could be a royal pain with ghosting large GB partitions
Linux (ext3 or reiserfs) - don't think that ghost would be able to write to one of these, unless I am mistaken.
Multiple (NTFS for certain %, reiserfs for the other %) - would work great except if I need to change the partion sizes (don't want to spend money on PartitionMagic).
Any advice? Any hope to use just one FS for the full 250 GB to ghost Window's computers onto and backup Linux partitions?
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