Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:36:34
Message-Id: 20130627113624.GC28346@nukleus.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage by Alan McKinnon
1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:13:55AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > exfat does what you want - it was designed to "just work" on the very
4 > large removeable media we have nowadays (think 7G movie files) and
5 > bypass all the nonsense like "does the user that created this file even
6 > exist on the machine that is reading it?"
7 >
8 > It also works pretty well
9
10 Hm.. there seems to be one problem for me: I installed exfat-utils and
11 there is no resize utility. Since the media partition will be the
12 biggest, and other partitions will be added later (whose size I don’t
13 know yet), resizing would be crucial.
14 --
15 Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’
16 Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service.
17
18 Just don’t ignore it.

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