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snozle

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Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 7

FTP server

I'm running archlinux without X and without a desktop environment. The only purpose of this computer is to run rTorrent and an FTP server. I have installed rTorrent and proftpd with pacman.

I have an external 500GB usb drive hooked up to the computer which I want to automount at startup and serve as the download directory and ftp directory. Basically, which filesystem should I format the external drive as? After reading several posts I have come to realize that Fat32 needs to be used in order to be able to read and write from Windows/Mac, but is this the case with FTP also?

Additionally, should I use /etc/fstab to automount the device (currently /dev/sdb)? Or should I use HAL?

Thank you!

slumslayer

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 66

Re: FTP server

You can add an entry in fstab to mount the disk at boot.
The filesytem is not important. Just use something reliable.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: FTP server

a) the filesystem doesn't matter for the clients, all operations are done by the host. So use a decent and native filesystem (ext3, xfs, jfs, reiserfs, I'd personally take ext3).

b) definitely fstab.