Re: And one file system to be read by them (OSs) all?

jcdill@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
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.


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[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.


Although I have not tried this, I think Linux will see a USB disk
as a SCSI drive regardless of the presence of partitions or
filesystems on the drive.  You should be able to say something like
"/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda" to put a partition on the drive, and then
use mkdosfs to put a fat32 filesystem on /dev/sda1.  OS/X might
also be able to do this.

Good luck!

Paul Allen
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