Re: USB external drive help, NTFS, FAT32, EXT3

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mark Hobley schrieb:

I haven't been near Windows in years but it is my impression that NTFS is more reliable that FAT32. Why don't you like it?

I prefer FAT32 over NTFS. Apart from the problem with NTFS being a proprietary filesystem, I have seen some serious problems (on Microsoft Windows based machines), where the filesystem locks everybody out, preventing access to the files, including the Administrator accounts.

Me2 :-(

Often it's sufficient to make an drive accessible in a network, or plug it into a machine, and Windows (XP...) will start to adjust the access rights on that drive. In detail when the drive is r/w, and Windows is told to mount or share it read-only. Such *** will not happen with FAT drives or folders.

I'm only missing easy means (on Linux) to split huge files (>4GB) for storage on a FAT drive. Windows archivers usually offer an option to split an archive into multiple files of a maximum size...

DoDi

GNU tar, and the 'split' command, is built into CygWin.
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