Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ?

[Lie Ryan]

On 12/5/2009 7:52 AM, Duncan wrote:
> Lie Ryan posted on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:42 +1100 as excerpted:
>
>> The 8G is small compared to the external's size (120G)
>
> I think I mentioned it, but I still find it amazing... Fry's Electronics
> recently had a USB 1 TB external for $80.  I snagged one.  I'm not
> bragging, as after tax, that's about what they're going for on
> pricewatch.com (no tax but with shipping) now days as well; I'm just
> still so amazed that prices have come down that far.  A TB disk for $80.
> It's just... weird!

If you mean this guy: 
http://www.frys.com/product/5832713;jsessionid=IEhzBaKBRCPLT6YdVM4dqw**.node2?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

it wouldn't fit into my pocket, wouldn't it?

> Meanwhile, 120 gig... is almost USB thumbdrive size now.  When you said
> "small" 8 gig partition, I was thinking relative to a half terabyte
> drive,

A quarter terrabytes (250GB). This is not the first time I messed up 
when stating my external's size. Still small, but better at least. The 
120 GB is my laptop's (which are quite a few years old now).

  at least, and with TB drives at $80 (which I still find almost
> unbelievable), half TB would be models from a year or two ago.  8/120ths
> might be small, but it doesn't look so small when someone's thinking
> 8/500ths or 8/1000ths on the one hand, and has just done the GPT
> repartition I mentioned and felt incredibly foolish sticking a measly
> 1 MiB partition (the BIOS boot partition) on that 1 TB (931 GiB) drive!

But I felt even more foolish to have to reboot to the the OS in my 
harddisk just to copy a 50kB file to my NTFS partition because my 
friend's Macbook cannot write to NTFS. GPT only helps to boot, it 
doesn't make a Macbook read from NTFS partition or a Gentoo LiveCD write 
to NTFS.