On Sunday, Oct 24, 2004, at 17:33 US/Central, Scott Granneman wrote:
I would strongly urge you against FAT32. I used it on an external drive, &
suffered corruption & lost everything on the drive. FAT32 is a pretty lousy
filesystem for large drives. If you can use ext2 or, better, a journaled
filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs, I would.
Yup. I had a look at this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;184006
In addition to those limitations, I seem to have stumbled upon a size limit in the filesystem's top-level directory: no more than ~20 GB. Googled for that but didn't find anything. Anyone heard of such a thing? My work-around was to create a subdirectory and put all the files in that. So far, so good. But as soon as this transfer is finished, I'll be moving to ext2/3.
I remember hearing about read-only ext2/3 drivers for Windows. Anyone know if there are read-write ext2/3 drivers for Windows that actually work? Anyone used them? Care to give feedback? If there are ext2/3 drivers for Windows, then that would make ext2/3 a very portable filesystem in that it can be used by Linux, Windows, and OS X.
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