<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6g9o4f">http://tinyurl.com/6g9o4f</a><br><br></b>This is a 'temporary' adaptor that works with 3.5, 2.5, or cd drives. Heard about it on Leo LaPorte show yesterday.<br>
<br>Allen K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:27 AM, David Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Kendall Bailey wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org" target="_blank">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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So if the file system is owned by root then you may be able to read it<br>
but you probably won't be able to write to it. Even if the icon shows<br>
up on your desktop.<br>
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But if I'm root on the box that has the drive plugged in, I can chown<br>
the whole file tree, right?<br>
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That's one way to do it...<br>
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I have a couple of USB hard drives. One is a WD Passport 250gb, that came formatted as FAT32... but obviously not standard FAT32 since it's one big 250gb partition. It works fine under WinXP and Linux - with the caveat that Linux will complain about not being able to set file permissions when you copy files to it.<br>
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My other one is a el-cheapo "MadDog" enclosure I got at CompUSA that I put one of my old laptop HD's in. I usually have it formatted as Ext2 or ReiserFS and mount it natively on a Linux system. If you have it set up to mount as a user (i.e. "dave") on one system... if I mount it on another system, files will only show up as being owned by "dave" if the UID is the same on both boxes.<br>
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Depends on what you're planning to do... if you're just using it for portable file storage and plan to plug it into multiple machines including Windows, I'd format it FAT32 or NTFS. If you have specific needs to have a Linux partition on it, then use Ext2/3.<br>
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You could also have both types of partitions on the drive...<br><font color="#888888">
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