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Re: File system for external hard drive?

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At Sat, 14 May 2011 20:18:30 +0100 Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Recently I've faced the need to store in an external HD files which are 
> over 4GB.  As I've been using vfat for the external HD's file system, this 
> turned into a problem.  I could simply reformat the external HD with ext2 
> or ext3 but as I need to access files in windows that also tends to be a 
> problem.
> 
> So, under this scenario, what file system is appropriate to use on an 
> external HD?

In theory NTFS I guess, but Linux support for NTFS is iffy -- not all
distros have it as part of the stock kernel and there are version
issues, since just what constitutes 'NTFS' keeps changing (at M$ whim)
and there is no definitive documentation on what NTFS is (M$ keeps this
info 'secret').

Another posiblity might be UDF, but I am not sure how well supported UDF
is under MS-Windows.

There are driver packages for ext2 and ext3 for MS-Windows, but it
requires something 'extra' to be installed on the MS-Windows system. The
packages should be free (since the code is open source), but there are
situations where installing extra software on MS-Windows might not be
possible (eg not your machine / company policy / etc.).

> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rui Maciel
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File system for external hard drive? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 20:18 +0100
  Re: File system for external hard drive? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-05-14 14:43 -0500
    Re: File system for external hard drive? philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-05-14 19:20 -0500
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        Re: File system for external hard drive? Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-14 20:46 -0700
          Re: File system for external hard drive? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-05-15 10:44 +0000
            Re: File system for external hard drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-15 14:45 +0100
  Re: File system for external hard drive? "JP Loken" <jp_lokennospam@hotmailnospam.com> - 2011-05-15 23:54 +0200

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