[PLUG] New drive quandary

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:35 pm, you wrote:
> Well now that I have a 36.1 gigabyte 10,000 hard drive.  I have a problem.
>
> I have been running <shudder>Windows 2000</shudder> on my main mail reader,
> photo editor, bigger memory PII 266 Mhz with 384 MB RAM system, with a
> mother board that has on-board SCSI to which is connected a scanner and zip
> drive. I have also sort of retired my use-to-be firewall web server
> <cheer>Linux</cheer> system back from the firewall, since I obtained a
> D-Link 707 Firewall/switch.
>
> I have not formatted it yet and am wondering what would be the best file
> system to use.  I want to use the hard drive as a back up for my other
> systems. (Did I mention, the spouse's <shudder>Windows 98</shudder> PIII
> 1.2 MHz 512MB RAM, 20 GB Hard drive system?)  One of these days I will get
> up the nerve and try to get to just Linux at home, but until then, I will
> be putting this new drive on the <shudder>Windows 2000</shudder> machine.
>
> _________________________________________
> Kenneth Stephens

Poor man. Winderz has that effect on a lot of people.

Use NTFS for security, which means more admin chores, such as setting 
permissions and having user accounts, use FAT16 or 32 for easy. Files will be 
magically translated for the different machines as they travel over the 
network.

Carla