poc wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:57 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > The simplest thing is to use vfat on the pen drive. Most of them come > > > preformatted with vfat and both Linux and OS/X can handle them fine. > > > > Does vfat support ext2 style symlinks? The file system I wish to create > > will be full of 'em if they turn into hard copies of the pointed-to > > files, the size of the filesystem will explode. > > No, vfat is an ancient DOS-based filesystem. It doesn't even support > file permissions in any reasonable way. However it is a lowest common > denominator. That's what I thought. But since Rick suggested it after I said I needed symlinks, I thought I'd ask. > > Also, do pen drives hold 30 Gigs these days? The last one I bought > > held only 4. But that was a year ago. > > 4 is the largest I've seen for pen drives, however you can get external > USB hard drives in assorted sizes, easily large enough for 25GB (mine is > 500GB) and they aren't expensive. They invariably come preformatted with > either FAT (really vfat) or NTFS. This could be the easiest way to do > what you want (copying 25GB over the Internet might take a while, and > get your daughter noticed by the university IT admins). Again, that's what I thought, but at Rick's suggestion I thought I'd check in case I missed something. > There's an old exercise in Tanenbaum's networking book involving > calculating the bandwidth of a carload of CDs. For certain distances it > beats anything else out there :-) Until this year, when we got 1G networking in my lab, we used "sneaker-net" all the time to carry large amounts of video data (100's of GB) from one part of the lab to the other. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
