[02:29] <ol> 5~5~
[02:29]  * ol coughs
[02:30]  * Atamira deodorises ol general area of coughiness
[09:33] <karora> good evening :-)
[18:49] <Atamira> mornin
[18:49] <ibeardslee> morning
[19:12] <ajmitch> morning
[19:40] <mwhudson> morning
[19:50] <Atamira> question..whats linux standard file system?..ext 2 or fat32?
[19:51] <ibeardslee> ext3 ?
[19:54] <Atamira> or ext3
[19:54] <ajmitch> or ext4 now for a lot of distros
[19:55] <Atamira> so if a external hdd is formatted in fat32..it should work on linux? specially ubuntu?
[19:55] <ibeardslee> yes
[19:56] <Atamira> well..then i guess im taking this back..cause its not working
[19:57] <ibeardslee> is it a big drive?
[19:57] <ibeardslee> because I've come across some formatted NTFS
[19:57] <Atamira> naa..320gigs.
[19:58] <Atamira> its a usb mobile hdd
[19:58] <ibeardslee> yup
[19:58] <Atamira> works on the windows machine, but not in here
[19:58] <Atamira> right..off to jb hifi now that its open
[19:59] <ibeardslee> that'll be fun .. because it obviously works (on windows)
[19:59] <ibeardslee> you are sure it's fat32 rather than ntfs?
[20:01] <ajmitch> any recent external drive I've seen is ntfs
[20:01] <ajmitch> which Just Worked when plugging into my laptop running ubuntu
[20:01] <Atamira> the guy at the store says its fat32
[20:02] <Atamira> documentation for this thing says fat32 or ntfs
[20:02] <Atamira> it works on windows only
[20:02] <Atamira> neway..bbiab
[20:02]  * ibeardslee nods at the knowledgable staff at places like jb hifi and dse
[20:02] <Atamira> they had to find one who actually did anything on linux
[20:02] <Atamira> cant be that good..cause he thought linux was formatted with fat32
[20:02] <Atamira> its a standard he said
[20:02] <ajmitch> it's useful having a 1.5TB external drive that I can plug in to my laptop :)
[20:03] <ajmitch> in other words they looked around the store for someone who'd seen a linux cd a few years ago but who'd never run it :P
[20:03] <Atamira> ajmitch, i have a 1TB one..but i wanted a smaller one to swap with friends at work so i didnt have to lug the terabyte one around
[20:03] <Atamira> finding a spare power point at work is a mission
[20:04] <Atamira> one of the guys had a 320gb usb external hdd
[20:04] <Atamira> quite handy
[20:04] <ajmitch> yeah, the ones powered from the usb port are better for mobility
[20:04] <Atamira> yep.
[20:04] <Atamira> neway..out for a bit
[20:46] <thumper> morning
[21:40] <Atamira> woot..got a new one and this one works right out of the box
[21:41] <ibeardslee> kewl
[21:41] <Atamira> now to change the permissions on it so i can write to it
[21:50] <Atamira> ugh.too tired to do that now..
[21:50] <Atamira> im going to bed
[21:52] <Atamira> oh and a side note
[21:52] <Atamira> that hdd is formatted in msdos