Best filesystem for sharing between windows and gentoo?

dasilva · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 83

I don't know much about filesystems.

The only one I know that I could use between my NT 2000 (NTFS) and gentoo (EXT3) is some form of fat, and fat isn't all that great.

Is there some filesystem out there, at least semi-recent-- that i could use?

deepwave · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:24 am Post subject:

Sorry, your only choice is FAT, as Windows only reads NTFS and FAT and currently Linux's write support for NTFS is quite useless. But NTFS read is fine.

Maybe something like Novell's filesystem, might have be supported. But my advice with Novell in general, is that you don't want to go there.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:01 am Post subject:

If you want read-only access from Windows, but read/write access from Gentoo, you can use ext2 or ext3, and there are some open-source ext2/3 drivers and utilities on SourceForge.

If you want read-only access from Gentoo, and full read/write access from Windows, you can use NTFS.

For full read/write access in both systems, however, vfat is (at the moment) pretty much you only option, as deepwave suggested.
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herbo · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:

Just remember to use FAT32 and not just FAT (fat32 allows much larger partition sizes with less wastage), but these are your only options for sharing data.

I have 20gig FAT32 partition I use to share data between windows and linux and it works fine.

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Basin · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 41

You can have read/write access to ext2/3 from windows, try ext2fsd (ext2fsd.sourceforge.net). There is also a paid for program called paragon mount everything that is similar, but has a nice UI as well.

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Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

Mine is 85GB and I haven't experienced any troubles..
yet ;-)

mvh
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codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

I thought FAT32's partition limit was ~137 GB :?:

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Talsadus · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 20

Okay, it would work if you format using linux, but Windows won't format FAT32 partition bigger than 32GB into a drive, that's what I found anyway. Unless there are other tricks I don't know about?

DL8 · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Israel

Are the systems both on the same computer, right? If not, you can use Samba to share, not minding which FS to use

friedegott · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject: