[Ilugc] Compatibiltiy issue of Seagate External Hard drive with Linux.
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Mon Jul 21 18:49:54 2008
Hello,
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, balaji chellappan wrote:
In the list of OS supported, they have not mentioned anything about
linux.
This seems to be a standard USB external storage device and should be
usable as such.
It seems the disk is preformatted in NTFS. If we reformat to ext3,
can we use it in systems with Linux OS. I request you to kindly
comment on this.
You should probably not reformat it as a single disk partition unless
you are planning to use it for "large file" type file system for many
large files. In order to give yourself some flexibility, you should
create an LVM physical volume and then use LVM to partition the disk
as you need to. This allows you to resize volumes if you need to.
If you or your friends have any prior experience in using this
product in Linux OS, kindly let me know.
I have been using an external USB Seagate 350GB external drive
for backup. No problems so far.
Regards,
Kapil.
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