On 9/14/06, jason watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ok, the setup i am working to build
i have a 160 gig hd
i plan on shrinking windows xp down to 40 gigs
then installing linux to another 40 gig section.
the other 80 gig, i want to format so that it can be read by both windows
and linux.
i know ntfs is out, linux isnt so good at reading it.
i know fat16/32 are both useable by windows and linux.
is there any other format i should consider useing that can be read by both
win and linux?
reason for this is i plan to use the 80 gig section to "pass" video's back
and forth between they two. im expecting files to be between 1 and 2 gig.
(maybe smaller? not sure, dont have the files yet to know)
I formatted mine to ext3 and used a Windows ext2 driver.
There are two free (as in beer) drivers available - one is not open source:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
http://www.fs-driver.org/ (not OSS)
I can't recall which one I actually use. But I've never had any problems
with basic read/write.
Another option is NTFS. The linux NTFS driver group are very active and
have made a lot of progress. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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