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

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Feb 5 14:00:26 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> In summary, it's mostly because it's not self-journaling and thus
> (relatively) easy to corrupt and fragment.  However, I'll repeat that I
> haven't had any real *problems*

True.  Its drawbacks are also its advantages.  It's simple.  I wouldn't want
to do real work on it, and since my only use for Windows is Quicken , the
only data I want in Windows I definitely _don't_ want on FAT, but I have
used FAT partitions for moving data around.
-- 
derek





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