Re: USB external drive query

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:02:20 +0100, Hugh Newbury wrote:

Hi: Has anyone tried/got a Sandberg USB All-in-1 Hard Disk Link? Does it
work with Linux? It's said to be plug-and-play, so needs no drivers.
Sounds too good to be true at £24.99 inc VAT from Novatech.

I've been using a USB powered 80 GB Formac for a couple of years now.
Fedora 6 originally, Fedora 8 now. My first action was to reformat it as
ext3. It looks very cute and 'just works' for fs backups with rsync and
PostgresQL database backups with pgdump.

I've also been using a big old WD 120 GB with a power brick since late
2005. Its attached to the same kit as the Formac. The Formac is used for
weekly offline backups and the WD for overnight daily backups on the same
kit and operating system, so its always online. The overnight backups are
tar compressed backups. This disk is also reformatted as ext3.

Depending on how you want to use it, you may want to reformat your USB
disk as ext2 or ext3. I discovered the hard way that VFAT filing systems
have a hard wired file size limit of 4GB - as soon as my daily compressed
backup exceeded 4GB it started to fall over. A web search confirmed that
the VFAT file size limit was the problem and reformatting the disk as
ext3 fixed it.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
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