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

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 2/4/07, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> 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"?
>
> What do you mean with that particular phrase? I'm most concerned with
> avoiding data corruption when switching between Windows XP and Ubuntu.


FAT32 doesn't support LFS (Large File System) even on this day. If ever you
would transfer a single file (e.g DVD Image) that is >=4.2GB to a FAT32
Filesystem, which is equivalent to 4,294,967,295 or
11111111111111111111111111111111 in binary (Count the one's), then you'll
out of luck.

Since FAT32 is a 32-bit filesystem, expect it to have a 32-bit limitation.

Regards,
Joel

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