On Saturday 25 March 2006 14:29, Rony Bill wrote: > I agree. FAT32 will get the usb drive automatically mounted on any > machine, windows or linux, subject to the OS having auto mounting > features. NTFS too should work, my client recently got a Hitachi > portable 40 GB usb HDD for > 3K9 and the shop guy formatted it with ntfs. It can be detected > automatically by XP as well as Ubuntu 5.10.
Yes, NTFS works pretty well but there is one problem. NTFS write support is still not stable. Only some bleeding edge distros have it. So FAT32 seems a better choice. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
