[plug] formatting utilities?

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 22:01, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1079272820.9955.4.camel at syngery>
> on Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:00:21PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > It's a good idea to get out of the habit of using vfat because of
> > [its] 2gb file size limit.
> 
> I didn't realise USB flash disks are that big. But, anyway, I would have
> thought that one disadvantage of using ext3 for a USB drive is that it
> won't be "portable" to Windows and Mac OS machines.
> 
True. But of course Explorer2fs can help in that regards. I'm more
thinking of external usb harddrives. We WILL get > 2gb usb flash. Take a
look at:

http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm

;)

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