If you want to use this with Linux *and* Windows, your only real choice is NTFS unfortunately. Microsoft updated FAT (now called exFAT), but I do not think that this is well supported by Linux (I have not tested it).
While Linux does have excellent support for FAT32, there are a number of limitations (such as maximum file size) that make ntfs a "better" (less crappy) solution. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Geekus Villagius <[email protected]>wrote: > Last night, I bought, from London Drugs, a 1 TB Verbatim external drive > for backup of files from an old tower that I want to donate. > > It is detected by the OS on both the old tower and my ThinkPad, both of > which run Linux Mint 14 with Mate desktop. > > I only saw one of the partitions, with 16 GB free. KDE partition manager, > when I got it to run, showed the full disk, and an 'msdos' partition > formatted FAT32. The larger space does not appear in Mint's file management > GUI tools. > > Under Windows 7 (yes, I know) the full space appears. I can use the > Windows storage management tools to display the various partitions. I > formatted some unallocated space as FAT32 and was able to both see it and > create a new directory in it. > > Considering doing a full wipe and partition might cause difficulties if I > want to switch it for another, what are your thoughts on the best way to > proceed? I may want to use this with Windows, but am more concerned with > getting it to function on Linux, with Truecrypt, etc. > > I have Nepomuk backup installed, but have never used it. > > Suggestions appreciated. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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