From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   TJ wrote:   
   > Most of the stuff I'll be putting on this drive isn't OS-specific -   
   > photos, videos, PDFs, etc. Stuff that I access very infrequently and   
   > don't need cluttering up my main hard drive, but stuff I want to find   
   > easily when I do want it.   
      
   Yeah, for that the attributes really don't matter.  Some of that I've   
   burned to data DVDs, for which I ended up writing my own cataloging script.   
      
   > And since the OS I use 95+% of the time is   
   > Linux, keeping Windows compatibility is probably not all that important,   
   > now that I think of it.   
      
   What you could do, and what I did when my backup partition was ext3, is   
   create a small FAT32 partition, and put utilities there to allow Windows   
   and Macs to read an ext3/4 partition.   
      
   I'd still suggest splitting the 1 TB into several partitions by date,   
   file type, subject, or whatever.  But definitely, planning the   
   partitioning in advance saves a lot of work later on!   
      
   Adam   
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