On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:55 +0800, Didier Casse wrote: > Those external hard disks are getting really popular nowadays and and > lot of people would get one in the near future... What are Redhat's > plans for things like these? Well, I have never seen an external device that didn't come pre- formatted with some FAT variant... Not that external hard disks with some other filesystem don't exist, I have a couple of ext3-formatted external disks myself, but I did that on purpose. Did your friend reformat the disk at some point? > Again thanks for the reply. If there's no other solution, I guess I'll > tell him to convert the filesystem. For now, VFAT is certainly the way to go for universal interoperability, even though it sucks in many other ways. /Per -- Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
