umkfs.ext3.or mkfs.msdos

[Karl Larsen]

Chris Jeffries wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 21:56 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
>   
>>         Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>         > Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>         > 
>>         >> Karl, you might miss out on the extra attributes assigned
>>         to files in 
>>         >> ext2 file system. Like owner, rights and more advanced time
>>         information.
>>         >> If I were you, I would just have one stick with FAT32.
>>         > 
>>         > Unless the UID's don't match between systems :-)
>>         
>>         Been there, then it is something with find and chown :-(
>>         -- 
>>         
>>     
>
> Karl,
>
> I have not tested the following out with USB sticks, but there is an
> ext2/3 installable driver for Windows which I have installed and it
> works fine for getting to my Ubuntu hard disk partition from Windows, so
> it probably will work for USB sticks too. 
>
> I can read AND write AND create AND delete files. The restrictions are
> primarily in managing rights and ownerships.
>
> Without rebooting to Windows, I cannot give you chapter and verse, but
> if you google for 'ext2 windows' then I am sure you will find it easily.
> Although it is called an ext2 driver it works fine with ext3 as well.
>
> Chris
>
>
>   
    I will do the Google and see what it is. What I did is working but 
you do loose all the nice things about ext2.

Karl


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