[plug] formatting utilities?

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Mon Mar 15 12:34:37 WST 2004


Chris Caston wrote:
> 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:

It's here in Dubai already..(well = 2gb anyway). Bloody expensive but it is here..

Brad



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