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I will be installing a 200GB External Hard Drive which I would like to use
as backup to my partitioned (5)120GB internal drive. Will I be able to
partition the External drive into 2 partitions, 120GB and 80 GB leaving
either the 120 or 80 for backup of the external? If I use Ghost would the
80 GB be enough? Have about 30GB of data.on the internal.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Phil B.

On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:41:09 +0000, Phil wrote:

> I will be installing a 200GB External Hard Drive which I would like to use
> as backup to my partitioned (5)120GB internal drive. Will I be able to
> partition the External drive into 2 partitions, 120GB and 80 GB leaving
> either the 120 or 80 for backup of the external? If I use Ghost would the
> 80 GB be enough? Have about 30GB of data.on the internal.
Yes you can make it by using cfdisk - cfdisk /dev/sda.
I propose the jfs filesystem for backup data , because you will not have
problems with the free space on your 120 GB partition.

Lars Schotte wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:41:09 +0000, Phil wrote:
>
>
>> I will be installing a 200GB External Hard Drive which I would like to use
>>as backup to my partitioned (5)120GB internal drive. Will I be able to
>>partition the External drive into 2 partitions, 120GB and 80 GB leaving
>>either the 120 or 80 for backup of the external? If I use Ghost would the
>>80 GB be enough? Have about 30GB of data.on the internal.
>
> Yes you can make it by using cfdisk - cfdisk /dev/sda.
> I propose the jfs filesystem for backup data , because you will not have
> problems with the free space on your 120 GB partition.

Oops. Wrong OS, FS. Personally, I use FAT32 on external HDDs because its
a universally readable FS format; NTFS with NT 5.1 and ReiserFS with
Linus Torvald's baby

Phil (spamnono) wrote:
> I will be installing a 200GB External Hard Drive which I would like
to use
> as backup to my partitioned (5)120GB internal drive. Will I be able
to
> partition the External drive into 2 partitions, 120GB and 80 GB
leaving
> either the 120 or 80 for backup of the external? If I use Ghost
would the
> 80 GB be enough? Have about 30GB of data.on the internal.
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Phil B.

You could also do the partitioning from the windows GUI. COnnect the
drive, right click on my computer-manage-disk management.

If you are going to format this then remember that FAT32 has a 4gb file
limit. So for the ghost partition you might want to choose ntfs.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp

Jeroen

[apple2012]

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Go and see the detail.
Work well.