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| 668852 | 2008-05-13 04:16:00 | Hi all, I have a 1Tb external USB hard drive which I intend to back up DVR footage to. The DVR is pretty much just a linux box with a flash-harry graphics card (:D ). Because it's Linux, I've been advised that the external drive needs to be formatted as FAT32 rather than NTFS I'd like to partition it into 4 x 200Gb. What's the best approach? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 668853 | 2008-05-13 04:21:00 | Do you need to read it with windows machines? Why not use Gparted and format it in ext2? Or FAT32...Gparted will do pretty much all file system formats. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 668854 | 2008-05-13 04:42:00 | Yeah that was my first thought, but I'm still having trouble getting GParted to work on my work PC (Ubuntu etc work fine?) Seems excessive to use a linux boot-disk based tool when it's not a system disk I want to format too . . . . . surely there must be some good free alternatives to Paragon or (shudder) Norton that I can just run from XP to work on a USB drive? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 668855 | 2008-05-13 04:47:00 | I don't know of any free ones sorry. :lol: I'd use Ubuntu in that case, seeing as it works. Gparted is built into it. |
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