On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Carl Turney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
Most external drives that are already in caddies come formatted as fat or ntfs. Linux will cope with either. Windows will cope with ext2 or ext3 using drivers that you have to install, and guess what, your friend who you want to share files with won't have them installed. You could try a small vfat partion with the ext driver on it, so you could install the drivers to any windows system. They are slow too, but then again so was the linux ntfs driver at some point (dunno about now). _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
