I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only option? Many thanks -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com
On 3/9/2011 4:56 PM, Todd Cary wrote:> I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy > to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files > from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions > on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only > option?After plugging it in, use 'dmesg' to see the device name that was just added and mount it wherever you want. Maybe you should think about switching to Centos 5 (or 6 soon...) which should automount on the desktop. Fat32 is the only thing that will 'just work' across the different OS's and it is OK unless you are handling files >4GB. But don't you have a network for that sort of thing? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
--On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:56 PM -0800 Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:> I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy > to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files > from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions > on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only > option?I don't know about Mac, but you could set up NTFS with Fuse on CentOS to allow you to format and mount it as an NTFS filesystem. You could also format as ext3 and install a filesystem driver on Windows to understand ext3. <http://www.fs-driver.org/> Since the Mac is BSD-based, it might even understand ext3. There's this project: <http://ext2fsx.sourceforge.net/> I haven't used these, as I haven't needed to export files to another OS this way.
For Mac he can use fuse for mac or NTFS-3G for Mac, that will give you the ability to write to ntfs drives on a Mac. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23729/macfuse I use NTFS-3G for Mac and it works fine. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/ On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com>wrote:> --On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:56 PM -0800 Todd Cary > <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote: > > > I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy > > to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files > > from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions > > on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only > > option? > > I don't know about Mac, but you could set up NTFS with Fuse on CentOS to > allow you to format and mount it as an NTFS filesystem. > > You could also format as ext3 and install a filesystem driver on Windows to > understand ext3. > > <http://www.fs-driver.org/> > > Since the Mac is BSD-based, it might even understand ext3. There's this > project: > > <http://ext2fsx.sourceforge.net/> > > I haven't used these, as I haven't needed to export files to another OS > this way. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110313/b52e7994/attachment-0001.html>