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From: Vwaju on 20 Dec 2009 16:14
I want to backup /home on my Slackware Linux 12.2 installation before
upgrading.

I have a Dane Elec 2GB USB stick for the back up.

$fdisk sda

displays

ID: 6
System: FAT16

for this stick.

Do I need to create a Linux partition (ID: 83) before I can use the
stick to backup /home?

Thanks & Best Regards,

Vwaju
New York City
From: Jerry Peters on 20 Dec 2009 16:53
Vwaju <slack(a)rcn.com> wrote:
> I want to backup /home on my Slackware Linux 12.2 installation before
> upgrading.
>
> I have a Dane Elec 2GB USB stick for the back up.
>
> $fdisk sda
>
> displays
>
> ID: 6
> System: FAT16
>
> for this stick.
>
> Do I need to create a Linux partition (ID: 83) before I can use the
> stick to backup /home?
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
>
> Vwaju
> New York City

Use tar or cpio or dump, something *designed* to do a backup, not cp.

I'd recomend tar for your case, it's the simplest to use for both the
backup & restore.

Jerry
From: General Schvantzkoph on 20 Dec 2009 16:58
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:14:14 -0800, Vwaju wrote:

> I want to backup /home on my Slackware Linux 12.2 installation before
> upgrading.
>
> I have a Dane Elec 2GB USB stick for the back up.
>
> $fdisk sda
>
> displays
>
> ID: 6
> System: FAT16
>
> for this stick.
>
> Do I need to create a Linux partition (ID: 83) before I can use the
> stick to backup /home?
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
>
> Vwaju
> New York City

Use gparted to reformat it to EXT3. There is no reason to ever use FAT16,
if it's important to you to be able to plug it into a Windows box then
format it to FAT32, but EXT3 is a much better file system. Linux will
mount the stick with just about any file system but there is no reason to
use an inefficient one if you don't have to.

From: Vwaju on 20 Dec 2009 17:34
On Dec 20, 4:58 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:14:14 -0800, Vwaju wrote:
> > I want to backup /home on my Slackware Linux 12.2 installation before
> > upgrading.
>
> > I have a Dane Elec 2GB USB stick for the back up.
>
> > $fdisk sda
>
> > displays
>
> >         ID:  6
> > System:  FAT16
>
> > for this stick.
>
> > Do I need to create a Linux partition (ID: 83) before I can use the
> > stick to backup /home?
>
> > Thanks & Best Regards,
>
> > Vwaju
> > New York City
>
> Use gparted to reformat it to EXT3. There is no reason to ever use FAT16,
> if it's important to you to be able to plug it into a Windows box then
> format it to FAT32, but EXT3 is a much better file system. Linux will
> mount the stick with just about any file system but there is no reason to
> use an inefficient one if you don't have to.

Thanks for your helpful comments, General. gparted is not in the
Slackware 12.2 installation. Couldn't I use fdisk? (Or is there
another utility that I could/should use?)

Best, Vwaju
From: Harold Johanssen on 20 Dec 2009 19:59
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:34:11 -0800, Vwaju wrote:

> On Dec 20, 4:58 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:14:14 -0800, Vwaju wrote:
>> > I want to backup /home on my Slackware Linux 12.2 installation before
>> > upgrading.
>>
>> > I have a Dane Elec 2GB USB stick for the back up.
>>
>> > $fdisk sda
>>
>> > displays
>>
>> >         ID:  6
>> > System:  FAT16
>>
>> > for this stick.
>>
>> > Do I need to create a Linux partition (ID: 83) before I can use the
>> > stick to backup /home?
>>
>> > Thanks & Best Regards,
>>
>> > Vwaju
>> > New York City
>>
>> Use gparted to reformat it to EXT3. There is no reason to ever use
>> FAT16, if it's important to you to be able to plug it into a Windows
>> box then format it to FAT32, but EXT3 is a much better file system.
>> Linux will mount the stick with just about any file system but there is
>> no reason to use an inefficient one if you don't have to.
>
> Thanks for your helpful comments, General. gparted is not in the
> Slackware 12.2 installation. Couldn't I use fdisk? (Or is there
> another utility that I could/should use?)

I have been using fdisk to format USB sticks for some time now,
without any problems. I use ext2, rather than ext3, and I do backups on
my USB sticks with rsync.


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