[Novalug] Recommendation: USB Large harddrives 400G(and up) What is a good filesystem to use?

[william oakes]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 13:47, Phil Sides Jr wrote:
> william oakes wrote:
> > I presently have a 1Tb My Book that I have formated as fat32 in order to
> > utilize with both my winxp box and my linux box.  The only problem is
> > that I have to split large files into 2Gb pieces.  If I were only using
> > it with my linux box, I would use Ext3.
>
> I'm curious Bill...  Why don't you use ntfs?
>
> Phil

Phil,

My understanding is that presently, linux can not write to ntfs reliably.  I 
am using OpenSuse 10,2.  I believe that v 10.3 incorporates the ability to 
write to ntfs, but I have not been able to install it on this box (I believe 
there is a hardware problem, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet).  
I do have it installed on my laptop and my duel-boot winxp and linux box.

Bill...