I'm not so smart, but I do have 4 hds 500gb & 750 [3 ext fw8 & usb2(sata), 1 also has sata ext + 1 internal ata]formatted in fat32 & the external ones work cross platform. I defrag regularly. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthias Johnson To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Advanced Format Hard Drive
On Apr 23, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Clyde Cottingham <[email protected]> wrote: usually use a mac to format, but you could use linux almost as easy. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems?wasRedirected=true I dont think it can be Fat32 then since isn't it 2 ^ 32 = 4 gig and if it isn't Fat32 it won't work in Windows so why not use ext. So I assume it's probably a modified Fat listed within the link Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 5 - Crack and LLVM Jun 2 - Android Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie
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