[TriLUG] USB external hard drive for Linux machine

Dean Price deano at price4.org
Mon Apr 18 15:03:50 EDT 2005


depending on the size you will have to boot to linux and format it vfat 
so that windows sees it...

I just did the same with a sata drive... it was too big for windows to 
format it fat32... but formatted vfat in linux and both linux and 
windows xp reads and writes to it

Dean Price

Wesley (Xiaoyu) Zhang (xyzhang) wrote:

>Hi All,
> 
>I am considering acquiring external USB hard drive for my home network.
>I would like to use it on both my windows machine and FC 3.0.  Anyone
>has recommendation? Any gotcha I may need to know?
> 
>Thanks,
>Wesley
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