[PLUG] USB hard drives and Linux

[Tony Schlemmer]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 16:48, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I want to buy an external USB hard drive to use for quick backups on my
> Linux boxens- are there any Linux gotchas with these? Can I buy one without
> worrying if it's going to work on Linux?

I bought a "Fantom" 250GB external USB 2.0 drive to and my laptop, running 
Linux, detected it when I plugged it in. The entire drive came formatted from 
the factory as NTFS and so I shrunk the partition size down and created a 2nd 
partition and made an "ext3" filesystem. 

Unfortunately I need to dual-boot my laptop so I need to backup data for both 
WinXP and Linux from my laptop. IIRC I was running SuSE 9.2 at the time I 
made the original drive purchase and it worked flawlessly. I would guess that 
any reasonable Linux distro with good USB support would work as flawlessly as 
SuSE' Linux in terms of supporing a USB 2.0 drive.

Tony

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Anthony Schlemmer
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