[TriLUG] OT: Removable Storage Suggestions

Brian Henning brian at strutmasters.com
Thu Dec 8 11:44:57 EST 2005


John Broome wrote:
> Do you *have* to have NTFS on your target systems?  It makes life much
> easier to recover data when (not if) windows craps itself if your HDD
> is formatted FAT32.
> 
> Or, at least it has in my experience.

You never build systems with HDDs/partitions larger than 32GB?  (*)

You don't enjoy user-level file permissions?

Yes.  NTFS is required.

~B

(*) Yes, I know, FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB are /possible/. 
Windows, however, will not natively let you create one.



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