On 1.8.2014 23:58, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/01/14 23:37, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
I need to use an USB Hard Disk as repository; that is a "subversion repository" that is used in a local network.

This means (for me) that the data wrote inside the HD can be used, in case of emergency, bot on OS Linux both on OS Windows ....

Actually in this Hard Disk (that have ntfs file system) are stored data 
writed from OS Windows XP; and I am not able to read (easily) this data in OS Fedora.


I apologize for not answer the question you're asking.

However, a friend of my had a similar request not too long ago.  I told him not to bother with his idea and to simply go out and get a NAS.  He was a bit tight on money but he still went out and got a low end Synology NAS with 2x3TB drives.  Final cost was less than US$400.

The data is available to all of his devices.  Including his mobile devices.  And, of course, he has RAID to minimize loss of data.

With the NAS devices you can get other set of problems. I have for example been rescuing data from NAS which had sparc processor and it had formatted ext3 in a way that you couldn't read it in Intel processor machines without doing extra things and using drivers in alpha state (and which development had stopped and you needed to compile yourself)

So if going to nas route should check that you can actually get something out of the drives in case of box going bad. Or actually take backups instead of always planning to do them.
If you don't mind others (Like your more or less friendly spy agencies) to read the code in git repository one way to share the stuff with multiple machine is actually keeping the repo in Dropbox or something similar which actually copies the data to multiple places.

-vpk