The last time I installed ubuntu, it automatically detect and mount and put an icon of the ntfs partition on the desktop. It supports both read and write access. It was its inverse (accessing ext3 from window) flaky.
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Michael Dykman wrote: > I concede on all points but FAT32 just tends to be the most portable > across operating systems and I rarely need handle huge files. I don't > think Mac can do NTFS at all and support was pretty shaky in linux > until relatively recently. Even now, you can't be sure that NTFS > support has been built in to any particular kernel or distribution. > linux does supports several filesystem well suited to huge files but > I'm not likely to share them with anything else. > > More to the point of my first post, I have used quite a few of the > cheaper drives in the 750G-1T range, mostly Western Digital but I > don't really have a preference.. under FAT32 I have experienced some > flakiness; under ext3, no issues at all. > > - michael > > 2009/10/6 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 198 lines snipped |=---] -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
