So be careful not to wipe the wrong drive. The Disk Writer tool will format your chosen drive so it comes with some warnings and it will erase everything on the disk of your choice. I assume it takes some time if you have larger file sizes. I did a short test and it worked perfectly. You still need a way to read and write to ext2/3 from the OS that you made your DCP with.ĭCP-o-Matic has a new feature that enables you to put one DCP on a USB drive while formatting it to ext2. But this jumps only one of the two hurdles. With this you can format the disk in ext2 or ext3.
#Extfs dcp linus install
It is a Linux program that you can run from a USB or CD-ROM drive without the need to install Linux.
#Extfs dcp linus software
Check if the software has good references, you better not pay for something not worth it. This might cost you a few bucks but will save you a LOT of time. The best thing is to get software that enables you to read AND write to ext3 from Windows or Mac. It is a nice tool to get rid of all invisible files and folders. This can be done on a Windows machine if it's capable of accessing HFS+. If you use a Mac to copy your DCP to a disk, try to remove invisible files and folders, like. If you have to make one disk for one festival or one theatre it is worth asking them if they can accept HFS+, ExFAT or NTFS disks, as this may be a lot easier for you because HFS+ is an Apple file system, ExFAT can be used by both Windows and Mac, and NTFS is a native Windows file system. Quite some cinema servers can read NTFS disks and/or ExFAT and/or HFS+. Ext3 is the same as ext2, but journaled, which means things go quicker than in ext2. FAT does only accomodate for max 4GB filesize so if you did not make a very short film, ext2/3 is the only option when you want to be sure your DCP is accessible everywhere. Some systems can access NTFS and/or ExFAT and sometimes HFS+, but it is not something you can rely on. The vast majority of digital cinema servers are Linux machines, which can read FAT and ext2/3. OSX/macOS uses HFS+ and APFS, Windows uses FAT and NTFS while Linux can use a lot, amongst which ext2 and ext3.
What formatting does is putting a certain file system on the disk to make your computers Operating System (OS) able to read and write it.
What’s that? Every operating system has it’s own way of formatting hard disks and other media. Now, you have a hard disk to put your DCP on, but you’ve learned it needs to be ext2/3 formatted.
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