Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 03/02/07, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 06:02 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>> Hi, another question:
>>>
>>> I'd like to share files for read-write access between Windows XP and
>>> Ubuntu 6.06. To be specific, I'd like to share two partitions: 1. a VM
>>> (virtual machine for VMware); and, 2. files to be served up by apache
>>> and smbd in that VM.
>>>
>>> What is the best disk format to use? FAT, NTFS, ext3?
>> FAT: Reliable, proven to work. But not the greatest on-disk filesystem.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts:
> 
> "not the greatest on-disk filesystem"?

I think he just means inefficient, which is true.

> 
> What do you mean with that particular phrase? I'm most concerned with
> avoiding data corruption when switching between Windows XP and Ubuntu.

I've been using a FAT32 data partition with Ubuntu and Windows XP for a
while.  Lately I haven't been using XP at all :) , but I *never* had any
corruption problems.

Matthew Flaschen

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