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Setting Up a File Server
Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X all use different filesystems, and they have
different ways of sharing files across a network. On top of all this, you also get
network-specific protocols, for example, the ones that are used over the Internet.
If you are wondering which is the best one, you will never find the answer; instead,
you should use the technologies that you find most suitable for your application and
with which you are most familiar.
Preparing the storage medium
At this stage, it is a very good idea to use an externally-powered USB hub.
USB-attached hard drives will need the extra power to operate properly, and
if you are using a wireless adapter and USB flash drive, you should move them
over to the USB hub.
Please make sure that you are not using a drive with important
files. This chapter will show you how to format drives and use
other filesystems. All the data on your drives will be lost.
For simplicity, in this chapter we will be using an 8 GB USB flash drive; but the
concept is the same for USB hard drives.
Listing the available drives
In the console, you can use the fdisk command to get a list of drives and partitions
as shown in the following command line:
sudo fdisk -l
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