New drive

[Scott Mertens]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 10:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Scott Mertens <smertens at mho.com> wrote:
> > I have just bought a new SATA HD and installed with the DOS software
> > included with it.  It was formatted as FAT32, I think I will use as a
> > backup for this linux box.  My intention is to boot into a Ghost CD and
> > image drive to new Drive.
> > 
> > So question is is it OK to be formatted to FAT32 to copy an ex3 image
> > file to it.  Or should I mount it in Linux, format it as a ext3 and then
> > boot to Ghost and copy the image file to it?
> 
> Actually it's pretty bad to be formatted FAT32 in this application. If
> you copy Linux files per se to the drive then since FAT32 doesn't
> support owner:group:world permissions and you'll lose that info and
> have a terrible time doing a restore.

This is good to know!
> 
> Much better to format it ext3 and take advantage of the journaling for
> extra safety.

Now I have to try to do some research to see how to mount and where?  I
have only one other drive, also SATA that RH is seeing as SCSI
> 
> My 2 cents,
Ana a bargain at that rate!