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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Large disks in Opensuse 11
From:       Randall R Schulz <rschulz () sonic ! net>
Date:       2009-05-13 13:02:09
Message-ID: 200905130602.09265.rschulz () sonic ! net
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On Wednesday May 13 2009, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I am now able to report on the very latest development.
>
> ...
>
> Thus, we have narrowed the whole thing down to the source of error
> being either in the other disk or the other enclosure. The precise
> answer can of course be found by swapping the two disks and put the
> former one who failed to be partitioned into the new enclosure. Which
> is not a very big thing at all.

Great news! I hope the culprit is under warranty, especially if it's the 
drive.


> ...
>
> Feel free to comment, but before I swap the drives in order to find
> out, I would like to receive suggestions as to what file system I
> should choose. I originally thought to use FAT, but some of you
> advised against it in favor of Ext3. Personally I would like
> ReiserFS, but that is more difficult to read/write from/to from a
> Windows machine. Also, I have a MacBook Pro which to my knowledge can
> read neither ReiserFS nor Ext3. That would make FAT the preferred
> choice unless there are weighty reasons to go with something else.

Personally, I'm in the XFS crowd. FAT would be the only really bad 
choice. If Windows interoperability is a factor, then NTFS is your only 
good option. And, of course, if you need to interoperate with antique 
Windows systems that have only FAT, then you really have no choice.


> Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway

Daylight hours getting pretty long, eh?


Randall Schulz
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