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jafeha / parabird

Simple script written in python to build an os independent truecrypt encrypted usb-stick containing a portable thunderbird, enigmail, torbirdy and vidalia.
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file system type #9

Closed jafeha closed 11 years ago

jafeha commented 11 years ago

we should consider to support ntfs sticks only. it's the only fs that is fully supported by all three operating systems we want to implement and it is capable of files > 4GB.

Imho would forcing ntfs be much better than dealing with FAT's filesize problems. I'd also suggest to format stick and container with ntfs.

jojoo- commented 11 years ago

why in the world do we need files bigger than 4GB?

afair are ntfs sticks not supported under osx

jafeha commented 11 years ago

I thought there was support in osx for NTFS today, but i have no mac for testing. The thing is: the fs type is limiting the maximum container size to 4gb if we keep fat support. I don't care about the FS type within the container, but for the stick this is imho a massive limitation. But this discussion only makes sense if osx really has full NTFS support.

jojoo- commented 11 years ago

it's not supported out of the box, only via fuse.http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/ this is only the source code!

imo we should use FAT. if the binarys are a 1gbyte there will be 3gig left for emails & attachments.

when we support encrypting whole sticks, total file size size bigger than 4gig will be supportet.

jafeha commented 11 years ago

ACK. wontfix for a while.