[Cialug] USB mounted drives

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> GOt a 2T USB drive on a Fedora 9 system, .. it seems to mount & run just
> fine as NTFS (trying to maintain Windoze compatiblity), but after a large
> copy job, the drive seems to "go to sleep" and throw I/O errors on
> subsequent access.
>
> Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Not quite sure where to look, ..
>
>
As I understand it, NTFS support in Linux has improved greatly in recent
times (not sure if FC9 qualifies). When I last tried this I was not getting
superb results (but I can't remember what my probs were).

I chose another path: I installed the ext2/3 driver for windows and then
formatted the drive as ext3. This adds one complication because Linux will
respect and preserve the permissions of the fs so you'll need to treat it
just like you would a non-usb drive. Also, I created a small partition as
fat that had the ext2/3 driver and a readme so that I'd remember.

If you're interested in trying this, search for ext2ifs.

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