PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[plod2]

I have linux on my ps3 and a parition on my hard drive. With the new update I was wondering if I had to some how get rid of it, what would happen if I just went ahead with the update? And to get rid of it do I have to back up and format my hard drive.

I do have a 250gb HDD in my ps3 so I dont really care if I just loose 10gb and it would take a long time to back up. Also, does the back up utility compress the file that you back up at all?

I dont want to ruin my ps3, but I dont really want to waste all that time backing up and risk loosing everything formatting my hdd. What do I do??

[frodouk]

I think that by just updating the PS3 it will remove the OS partition, but I could be very wrong! Sorry

[amiyarakku]

According to the installation notes, before I cancelled the update, the partition will still be there but you'll be unable to access it as the OtherOS options will be missing.  To reclaim the space you'll have to backup and reformat.

Graeme

[plod2]

so i will only loose about 10gb then, and it wont destroy my ps3 if I dont remove it. I'm not really that fussed about 10gb

[frodouk]

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plod2 wrote:

so i will only loose about 10gb then, and it wont destroy my ps3 if I dont remove it. I'm not really that fussed about 10gb

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Correct.

[amiyarakku]

When I inevitably update, I'll leave the 10gb too... I changed the drive to a 250gb one.  I'm not bothered enough to backup and reformat.

Graeme

[johnnyquicknives]

This is exactly what i was most worried about.

I'm not too bothered about losing otherOS as I barely used it.  But 10Gb is about 20% of my usable HD space.

Essentially this "update" means either Sony take 10Gb of my storage space or i have to actually pay to buy an external HD so i can backup and reformat (The only external HD I have is not FAT32) followed by hours and hours of re-downloading content and software updates.  

[Nemesis128]

I believe if you backup your HDD it includes all your downloaded items so you wont have to re-download anything. Still, with no external HDD to use that isnt much help anyway.

[amiyarakku]

I can only recommend to you to pick up a cheap usb stick and use that to backup your save games.  They're not too big on their own.  After formatting you'd have to re-download your content from psn, and copy any music/videos back onto it.  Your system settings (i.e. psn account info) are on flash storage, so reformatting the hd won't affect these.

Note:  If you have any ps2 save data ... I was unable to back this up when I last restored the system, so I lost my data.

Graeme

[plod2]

so do you think i'll get away with just going ahead of the update and not formatting my hdd? I can sacrifice 10gb