[mdlug] Portable hard drives.

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
>> I am setting up a new portable hard drive.  1 terebyte
>>
>> I want to use a Linux partition instead of the usual Fat-32.  Etx3 for
>> argument's sake What settings are required to give the drive the open
>> parameters required to move from computer to computer?
>
> What "open parameters" are you referring to?  You should be able to
> just partition and format it (e.g. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1).
>
> However, I'd recommend having at least a small fat32 partition on
> there, just in case.

I think he means getting around the UID/GID issues inherent in moving
a drive with a filesystem that has them between different systems that
don't have synchronized user accounts.