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

[Ken Kauffman]

ntfs-3g works fine for read/writing.

Ken

On Feb 3, 2008 2:42 PM, william oakes <wdoakes at wildblue.net> wrote:

> 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...
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20080203/b39c996c/attachment.htm