[ale] Disk Format Question - Best choice for 500 Gig?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Get two; make one of them ext3 or xfs, and make the other fat32.  Rsync
between the two; take the fat32 one out for show and tell.


Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Well, this probably is one I should know, but I'm feeling  
> insecure and not quite sure how to chase confidence down on  
> the web. Or even better, I'm full of hooie, and somebody  
> here has a vastly better idea.
>
> I've got a 500 Gig hard disk onto which I want to put the  
> dv-video tapes from the past several years. This way, when  
> the new camera goes to pot, I hopefully have all the new  
> and old tapes of family occasions still available to me. I  
> will be putting it into a firewire/usb external case so I  
> can take things with me to various family sites, which run  
> a wild mix of OS X, widders, and/or linux. As such, I  
> expect the best format for the hard disk is a fat/msdos  
> type system, and I think I want the fat32 type.
>
> Am I nuts? Is there a better choice of format or better  
> approach altogether?
>
> Thanks in advance for both the use of your bandwidth, and  
> for responses
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