How to use a USB drive with Ext3 on Windows and Linux.


	How to use a USB drive with Ext3 on Windows and Linux.

owlpath

10-7-2007 6:35 PM

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linux, mepis, ext3, file system

owlpath says:

If you want to use your USB removable hard drive on both Windows and Linux, try this method with the Ext3 Linux file system.

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so I purchased a USB portable hard drive case and installed  it.
Initially, I had set it up for Windows, using their NTFS file system.
Since then, I build a Linux computer and found I could not write to
the removable drive due to Linux / Windows management system.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://owlbebak.vox.com/library/post/how-i-use-my-usb-drive-with-ext3-file-system-on-both-linux-and-windows.html"> I liked the idea of using Ext3 since it was very
flexible with file size and is the same file system I have on my
Linux computer.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://owlbebak.vox.com/library/post/how-i-use-my-usb-drive-with-ext3-file-system-on-both-linux-and-windows.html"><P><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN>Here is what you will do.</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></p> <P><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN><BR /></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN>
</p> <P><SPAN><STRONG><SPAN>After reformatting the portable drive
to Ext3 (I used Gparted in my Mepis system) go to
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download the executable file on your Windows computer. Before 
executing  the install program, plug in the USB drive.  Now start the
install program. Once the install program is running, it will open up
a window and will allow you to select a drive letter for your USB
drive. Just pick a letter and  finish the install. It is really easy!</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A5E2957-8B7E-41A6-9CAF-65E8DAB2B04C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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