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/
