[Cialug] USB enclosure for Linux ext3 drive

[Allen Kiddoo]

*http://tinyurl.com/6g9o4f

*This is a 'temporary' adaptor that works with 3.5, 2.5, or cd drives. Heard
about it on Leo LaPorte show yesterday.

Allen K

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:27 AM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>wrote:

> Kendall Bailey wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> So if the file system is owned by root then you may be able to read it
>>> but you probably won't be able to write to it. Even if the icon shows
>>> up on your desktop.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> But if I'm root on the box that has the drive plugged in, I can chown
>> the whole file tree, right?
>>
>>
> That's one way to do it...
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> You could also have both types of partitions on the drive...
>
> -dc
>
>
>
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