Maxtor One Touch III

I have a Maxtor One Touch III 150GB USB drive.

Now I plugged it into my WinXP box and it's all happy and does it's
backup thing.

I plug it into my Fedora box and Fedora isn't too happy with it.
Aparently it is formated in NTFS. If I only wanted read ability, that
would be fine since with the right software Fedora seems to be able to
read it. However it doesn't work if I want to write something to it.

No worries, I'll just reformat it to something that both Windoze and
Linux can read and write to -- FAT32.

Ok do a quick /sbin/mkdosfs -I -F32 /dev/sde and it's all happy.

Until I plug it back into the Windows box... Now aparently the WinXP
box thinks the drive is unalocated and wants me to add a partition to
it. It won't to more than 21GB as FAT32 and then subsquent partitions
seem to be limited to 8GB. Not really going to work.

So is there some filesystem that will work on this drive that both Win
and Linux can have read and write access to it?

Thanks in advance.

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