[plug] formatting new external usb hardrive

[Timothy White]

Sol wrote:

>I've finally gotten around my backup slackness (I hope!) and have bought
>a usb hard drive. I've just been going through some simple yet useful
>instructions on how to  format and mount it that I found here (for the
>benefit of those thinking about doing the same):
>
>http://www.thelinuxpimp.com/main/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=561
>
>In part of this article it asks me to mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1. I'm doing
>this now but I'm wondering if this is the way to go because both the
>server and laptop I want to back up use reiserfs? I was going to tar
>everything under / for the initial backup and then us rsync from there
>onwards to keep things up to date. Will this work? Or are there some
>horrible nasties lying in wait for me when I actually need to recover
>from backup?
>
>
As far as I know it should all work fine. ext3 and reiserfs are just the
underlying file systems that the device use. A tar file doesn't care
about the format of the file system (although it does care slight going
between Linux and windows due to permissions.)

You can format the USB driver as reiserfs if you want and IMHO it is
better for large drives (Uses less space for it's overheads) but that's
just personal opinion.

To do that you just need to execute 'mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sda1'

Tim

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