Formatting External HD

[Moog101]

I've just bought a Lacie Ethernet HD and it suggests formatting it to ext3 filesystem to enable it to handle files greater than 4 gig (which I need).

Is there any way from OSX to format an external HD to ext3 (or any apps which can do this)?

Thanks...

Edit : It's OK, i've just figured it out.

 

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I've just bought a Lacie Ethernet HD and it suggests formatting it to ext3 filesystem to enable it to handle files greater than 4 gig (which I need).

Is there any way from OSX to format an external HD to ext3 (or any apps which can do this)?

Thanks...

Edit : It's OK, i've just figured it out.

In case anyone else asks or looks at this thread in the future, the answer is no. The default GUIFied Disk Utility cannot format ext3. It formats HFS+, FAT32, and/or UFS.

I'm curious what utility/driver you found to do this for you. Can you please post it so others with the question can benefit from the answer?

 

[nargot]

the lacie ethernet drive has a serverside utility to format the drive as ext3 i dont know to easily do it on another drive

 

[bigboy99]

I've just bought a Lacie Ethernet HD and it suggests formatting it to ext3 filesystem to enable it to handle files greater than 4 gig (which I need).

Is there any way from OSX to format an external HD to ext3 (or any apps which can do this)?

Thanks...

Edit : It's OK, i've just figured it out.

How did you do it?

BB99

 

[grapes911]

Why are you not using HFS+?

 

[nargot]

the lacie ethernet drive has a serverside utility to format the drive as ext3 i dont know to easily do it on another drive

repeat of the quote for bigboy:

if you have the lacie minidisk it has a server side disk formatting utility (as it is a linux box running the hard drive) you access it by http://ipaddress/ in your wweb browser, click on the disk tab and choose a file format either fat32 or ext3 and format it the drive in this fassion.

The reason you wouldn't format it as HFS+ is if you want other OS's to connect because it will only work on mac OS's not windows or linux. I don't know yet because mine is busted but i think the FTP server will only work read only on HSF+ also which would be a pain if you require FTP to transfer files from a work which is heavily firewalled and has 99% of ports blocked to the hard drive at home.

 

[grapes911]

The reason you wouldn't format it as HFS+ is if you want other OS's to connect because it will only work on mac OS's not windows or linux.

The OP never mentioned anything about Windows or linux. Anyway, Windows support for HFS+ and ext3 are about the same, so no gain there. And the linux support for HFS+ is pretty good.

I don't know yet because mine is busted but i think the FTP server will only work read only on HSF+ also which would be a pain if you require FTP to transfer files from a work which is heavily firewalled and has 99% of ports blocked to the hard drive at home.

I don't think the drive formating has anything to do with FTP.

 

[nargot]

my brain fell out about the ftp thing, don't know why i thought that.

 

[grapes911]

my brain fell out about the ftp thing, don't know why i thought that.

Then put it back in