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Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: k0r54 on April 07, 2007, 05:10:06 PM

Hi,

I have a ntfs usb hdd, how can i move my files in my ibay to my usb hdd?

I know its stupid question but i dont know how to mount the usb and move the files to the mounted area.

Thanks
k0r54

Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: bpivk on April 07, 2007, 07:12:58 PM

use the search function (there have been many posts about it).

Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: stephen noble on April 08, 2007, 02:24:06 AM

I don't know if sme can read NTFS
I'm sure it can't write to it

Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: pfloor on April 08, 2007, 06:39:24 AM

Quote from: "snoble"

I don't know if sme can read NTFS
I'm sure it can't write to it

Neither in my experience.  You will need to reformat to FAT32 or ext3.

FAT32 has a 4gig file size limit that you need to be aware of.  Your choices are:

Format to FAT32 and mind the file size limit.  Both Linux and Windows will be able to read/write to the disk.

Format to ext3 to avoid file size limit.  However, you will only be able to read/write on Linux, Windows will be able to read/write to ext3.

You can however load drivers into Windows that allow read/write of ext3 files under Windows.

Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: dmay on April 09, 2007, 09:20:47 PM

Quote from: "snoble"

I don't know if sme can read NTFS

NTFS is currently supported read-only for direct attached usb drives.

Do you have a workstation? Simply attach the usb drive to your workstation and copy the ibay files to it.

Darrell

Title: moving files to usb stick?
Post by: k0r54 on April 09, 2007, 10:17:25 PM

Hi,

I have formated the drive and partitioned off 105GB as ext3 format. It is that partition i am mounting it onto.

I done a network transfer before but it is extremly unreliable.


Any other suggestions?

Thanks
k0r54

Edited: - Sorry wrong post, i found out this stuff but i do have a post here: - http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34187.0