[geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris 10

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/11/06 Mon AM 07:53:41 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris  10

>On 11/5/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> >From: James Fogg <James at jdfogg.com>
>> >
>> >What filesystem was on the USB attached disk?
>> >
>> >Was it FAT/Windows or something more familiar to Unix?
>>
>> It was (and still is) a filesystem usable by WinXP - the drive
>> came formatted, and has some "single-touch backup" software
>> included, I've never had occasion to reformat it, so I assume
>> (but am not sure) it was FAT.
>
>I'd guess FAT.  I have not found any info on NTFS support under Linux.
> Of course, this begs the question of how the beast handles >2GB
>files.  Have you tested that Lionel?

No, not yet - once my machine is on my network (still "on the bench") I'll give it a good going over... I'm busy trying to push in several directions at the same time, I need to stop and focus on one at a time for now...

I agree it is probably FAT.

Lionel