<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Ray Leventhal <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@swhi.net">ubuntu@swhi.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">MirJafar Ali wrote: > Hello, > > Can I ask some important but likely to be controversial question ? I > have one external hard drive which I will be > using for Ubuntu ( mostly ) but sometimes for windows. > > Which filesystem is the most desirable and recommended. There seems to > be luxury of plenty. EXT3, EXT4, ZFS etc ? > > Can someone give academically honest answer ? > </div></div>Hi, If you're wanting to mix and match operating systems (Windows and Linux) accesses to the external file system, you're going to be stuck with FAT32 or NTFS (both of which can be read easily by Ubuntu and Windows). Sadly, Windows won't recognize EXT2/3/4, ZFS, ReiserFS or others. If you're dual booting, keep what is needed by both platforms on the Windows side of the house. That partition can be mounted by Ubuntu as-needed. As with everything GNU/Linux, there are any number of ways to accomplish any task. A bit more of what you're trying to accomplish will get better, more specific answers. Best regards, -Ray -- ===================================================================== A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ===================================================================== () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ <a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a> - against proprietary attachments -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Hello, Suppose I bypass window once for all, then what would you recommend. I generally have huge datasets ( 20-30GB in each file). I will be interested in fault tolerance issues in filesystems. Mir.