[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Mark Allums]

Michael Bauminger wrote:
> On Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008 10:02 AM, Mark Allums 
> <mark at allums.com> wrote:
> 
>> I just bought a large capacity USB "thumb" drive, 8 GB.
>> <snip>
>> How do I convince Windows that it is okay to format as
>> NTFS?
> 
> Take a look at this: 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/05/108205.aspx

Thanks, Michael.  Lots of good info there.  I realize now that NTFS is 
not the ideal solution to my problem of transporting files greater than 
4 GB.  It will work, but I must be careful to "eject" the drive properly 
in Windows, i.e., "Safely Remove Hardware".

Do you know of another option?  The drive will only be used with Windows 
XP.  Compression is unlikely to be helpful.  Splitting the file into 
smaller parts is what I wanted to avoid by buying the thing in the first 
place.  Well, that and the extremely long time it takes to burn 
DVD-ROMs.  Can Windows be taught to read and write ext2/ext3 or MINIX 
file systems?  (Would they be any less fraught with danger than NTFS?)

Suggestions welcomed.

(No, the files aren't pirated movies.  :)  Typically, it might be an 
.ISO of a Knoppix DVD.  I am on dialup, but my sister has very fast DSL 
(6+ Mb/s).  I go over to her house to download anything larger than 
about 100 MB, but I don't want to tie up her computer excessively.  It 
takes her computer more than an hour to write a full DVD, but only about 
ten minutes to write to the flash drive.  I can then bring the thing 
home and burn the image to DVD in my own time, and I don't displace the 
nieces and nephews from the computer any longer than I have to.  This 
contributes to peace and harmony in my sister's household.)

Thanks!

--Mark Allums