Thread: Using the N9 as a Portable Harddrive
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Fuzzillogic is offline Fuzzillogic
2013-08-27 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by kibet85 View Post
ok thanks alot guys..the ext 4 format only works on linux,is there a way it can be formatted to work on windows as wel..
Yeah, by installing Linux I've been a Windows user up until this year, but Windows 8 convinced me Microsoft have lost their marbles.

If you insist on using windows. you can try installing an Ext file system driver on Windows like http://www.ext2fsd.com/ (there are others tho. And AFAIK Ext2 is upward compatible with Ext3 and 4) or less convenient, use something like http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

Since I'm not using Windows, I can't comment on the quality of those tools.

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
I, on the other hand, use cron and rsync to automatically transfer my stuff to and from the device
Works both over 3G and WLAN, no hassles there...
I'm using Unison, which has 2-way sync. There is a port for the N9 available, from RZR or OpenRepos I guess. It also has a Windows build.

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"ext3 is partially forward compatible with ext4. That is, ext4 can be mounted as ext3 (using "ext3" as the filesystem type when mounting). However if the ext4 partition uses extents (a major new feature of ext4), then the ability to mount as ext3 is lost."

Well, you could always format the partition as ext3 instead of ext4. I guess the performance drop would be negligible on the N9.
Last edited by Fuzzillogic; 2013-08-27 at 17:05.