NTFS vs. ext3 sharing was{Re: do I need to format this new external drive

[anthony baldwin]

NoOp wrote:
> On 01/14/2008 06:19 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
>> Depends. Do you want to preserve things like permissions when copying
>> onto the drive?
>>
>> If it's >2GB, it won't be FAT16, it will be FAT32, which is actually a
>> reasonably efficient, fast FS with good long name support. You can
>> back up onto it using DAR, say. Leaving it FAT32 will mean that it's
>> also accessible from Windows, a Mac or almost anything else, which
>> might be an advantage.
> 
> Unless of course you want to save files larger than 4Gb (such as an
> Ubuntu DVD). In that case you'll want to use NTFS instead.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs
> 
> 

Too late, it's already ext3...
Is there really a limit to the size of file I can save on it now?
(Of course, 4gb is pretty big...)

Do I understand correctly that it may have been easier to set up sharing 
of such the external drive and the 150 gb storage partition on my hdd
between the two distros had I formatted them as NTFS?

/tony

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