Hi, > Can anyone recommend a file system for an external hard drive that can used on > either XP OSX or Linux
I've no experience with external drives, but have recently been swapping internal drives between systems. I'm also sharing data between XP and Linux boot partitions with an additional FAT32 partition. While it has no file/directory ownership, thus maximising multi-user access, FAT32 has both max file size and max partition size issues that limit its effectiveness. Use removable 80gb disks in caddies, with 1 large NTFS partition each. Can even set it all up within Linux: Partition type 7 in fdisk, then Initialise/format it with mkfs using a "-t ntfs" argument/parameter But I'm certainly no expert, so lets see what others say... Carl _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
