Re: And one file system to be read by them (OSs) all?
- From: "jcdill@xxxxxxxxx" <jcdill@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jan 2006 18:31:38 -0800
jcdill@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a new 400 gig hard drive that I'm mounting in an external drive
> case. I'd like to format this drive in an OS-agnostic format so that I
> can plug it into a Windoze, Mac, or *NIX computer (via USB or Firewire)
> and the computer can talk to the drive and read and write to the file
> system and the photo files (canon raw, tiff, and jpegs) therein.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and feedback. FAT 32 it is,
now to figure out how to get the drive formatted. [1] I don't have any
need for partitions smaller than 400 GB or any need for files larger
than 4 GB. I file my photos by the date they were shot and shoot
between 30-100 GB per month (I'm an event photographer), so I'll fill
this 400 GB drive in just a few months. There will be almost no
opening/editing/saving of existing files - occasionally a file will be
opened, edited and saved back to the same directory but with a new
filename (thus a new file) so fragmentation isn't an issue like it
might be with a disk used for a different type of data. Smaller
partitions would just make it more complicated to find the photos for
any given date.
The drive is being mounted in an external case for portability, a
network file server won't serve my purpose. I need to be able to take
this disk to another location, mount it to whatever computer is handy,
read the files with that OS, process the files, and save (with new
filenames) back to the same source disk. Ultimately, I'm hoping to
migrate off of Windoze as my primary OS. Right now only Photoshop
keeps me on Windoze - the cost of buying a new version of Photoshop to
move onto a Mac in addition to the higher hardware costs of a Mac makes
moving to a Mac too expensive, and GIMP simply isn't user friendly
enough for me to dump Windoze and migrate to *NIX yet. All my other
regular use software is open source (yeah Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM!)
and I should be able to migrate to another OS with little disruption in
my work flow when I stop using M$ OSs. When that finally happens I
want my archived photos on a disk in a format that I can access
directly from the new OS without any problems.
Thanks again to everyone for their contributions to this thread. This
is a great group!
jc
[1] I'm using a laptop, the drive is going in an external case
connected via USB. Will the tools suggested in this thread see an
unformatted drive connected via USB? I can also boot to Knoppix if
someone can tell me how to configure Knoppix to see/mount/format (in
FAT 32) the USB connected drive.
.
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