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

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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