From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao101.cox.net ([68.230.241.45]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I2Spm-0004xh-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:12:58 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070624141229.IGNP3339.fed1rmmtao101.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:12:29 -0400 Received: from lnx2.holmesgrown.com ([70.162.15.186]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id FSCT1X00440rnRy0000000; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:12:27 -0400 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx2.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I2SpH-0005n0-Dm for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:12:27 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I2SpG-0007A0-F9 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:12:26 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:12:26 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: A computer issue, how should I deal with this? Best solution? Message-ID: <20070624141226.GB10052@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <000b01c7b5b1$595fd500$ab00a8c0@tenstac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c7b5b1$595fd500$ab00a8c0@tenstac> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:12:58 -0000 Concerning the use of FAT32, I will never use it anymore. As I will explain further, you are restricted to file sizes of less than 4 GB. I agree, it is compatable with both linux and windows so at least you can share files back and forth. I have a 200 GB USB drive I bought a year or so ago and it had a FAT32 file system on it. I thought I would go ahead and start using it to backup my stuff. Well, both tar and winzip dutifully built my backups for me but they each resulted in archives larger than 4GB and both subsequently failed with size limit errors. I either would have to break them up into chunks to fit or do what I ultimately did. I repartitioned the drive with two partitions - one with NTFS and the other being ext3. Now I can backup all I want with no size limit issues; unless I get too big and run out of space:) but that's another matter. -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/