-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay
Win2k and XP will auto detect the drive, it is 98 that ...
Ok, that what I figured.
The reason Linux found the drive is the filesystem is plain old vfat (fat16). Not real efficient, but it works with ...
Well, I'd have thought Linux would detect it regardless of choice of fs, afterall is should appear as a harddrive even if there is no fs on it.
but if you still want to get to the drive easily under windows, leave part of it as fat16. Same goes for if you plan to boot to the drive. You didn't give it's size, so I can't be more precise. If you plan to encrypt w/ a Linux-based filesystem good luck. There is a ext2fs driver/program/reader/whatever for NT/2k/XP, but I've not used it. YMMV. It is likely to be beta...
I'm not too concerned about using it in windows. I would like to keep that compatibility, but I'd like to be able to encrypt it, not that I have anything of value I plan on putting on it. It's a 128MB just like Jeremy's. I plan on just playing with it to see what I want to use it for. Probably I'll wind up just carrying around pix of my daughter, and the occasional work documents. It's just a toy for now. I do think I'll try to boot my desktop from it. I don't think the laptop will boot from it, but the desktop just might.
On the corrupt filesystem, just let MS run checkdisk at boot
Well, I thought it might have something to do with using Linux to access the disk first and creating a directory and placing files on it. Which when I ran the secure disk software it so nicely destroyed, so when they tell you to back up the data, they really mean it. It would have been nice to get the message *before* it trashed the disk (well technically it did, it didn't trash the files until I ok'ed the message [only option was to ok] that told me to back up my files). But that was one of the things I was testing for anyway.
I'm wondering if it's possible to download the pictures from my camera directly onto the disk. Probably not, I think I have a USB connector to connect to the camera, but that's to plug into a PC with. It's an older digital. A 1.2MP Canon. Takes quite nice pix. Good lenses and capturing. Excellent colors and resolution.
Thanks for you input Brian and Jeremy.
Brian
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:02:24 -0600, Brian Densmore DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com wrote:
The reason Linux found the drive is the filesystem is plain old vfat (fat16). Not real efficient, but it works with ...
Well, I'd have thought Linux would detect it regardless of choice of fs, afterall is should appear as a harddrive even if there is no fs on it.
Some USB vendors use proprietary encrypted filesystems. There's no way Linux is going to detect something that the developers have never seen before.
I'm not too concerned about using it in windows. I would like to keep that compatibility, but I'd like to be able to encrypt it, not that I have anything of value I plan on putting on it.
I'd keep it as FAT for maximum compatibility with anything, and do a loopback mount of a file on that filesystem to do the encryption.
On Monday 13 December 2004 11:28 pm, Monty J. Harder wrote:
Some USB vendors use proprietary encrypted filesystems. There's no way Linux is going to detect something that the developers have never seen before.
To quibble terminology: Linux will probably detect those filesystems, even if it can't actually read them.
If there is a system that becomes common, or common on devices Linux developers like, it will most likely have some sort of support, given that you'll be able to do a 1:1 mapping of the data and determine the encryption process.
Encryption systems that remain restricted to a small number of niche devices probably won't get implemented.
Would like to try one of these 1GB preferably=).
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6ec2/
And if your a Gentoo fan like me here is gentoo on a 256MB flash drive.
http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/
Jonathan
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