Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
I'd personally go NTFS, using Captive NTFS in Linux for read/write support.On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:37:05 +1100 Elliott-Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I gather that formatting the shared partition as VFAT is an option, but that it may be too slow for my intentions.
Has anyone any experience around this, or with ideas about the best way to manage what I'm wishing to do?
You'll be stuck with vfat or NTFS until Microsoft decides to add Unix filesystem
support in Windows (when hell freezes over).
FAT32 has troubles handling large partitions. It might even have an inbuilt limit of a few GB, IIRC.
Another solution is an Ext3 driver for Windows. I use Ext2fsd (nice an Open Source), but every so often it gets unstable. But there's more stable, proprietary ext3 FS drivers for Windows around too.
VFAT, btw, is more than just FAT32. If you had a FAT16 FS with long filenames, that'd qualify as VFAT too, IIRC.
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