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

anthony baldwin anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 15 21:05:56 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 01/15/2008 08:32 AM, anthony baldwin wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> No... I was replying to Liam's suggestion for FAT32 for accesability
> from Windows & MAC. In that case I recommend NTFS, as FAT32 has a 4GB
> file size limitation (google/wikipedia is your friend, as are these
> archives where I was having a problem saving a DVD greater than 4GB on a
> FAT32 drive).
> 
> You can r/w to an ext3 with Windows, but in Windows you need to install
> something like ex2ifs: http://www.fs-driver.org/ in order to read/write
> to the ext3 drive. I suppose that there may be something similar for
> older MAC's, but I've no experience with MAC.



I'm not too concerned about writing to my drives with Windows.
Baldwin Linguas is a 100% FOSS/Gnu/Linux shop...

Thanks for clearing that up for me!

/tony




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