Pertition accessible by windows and Linux

bgrade · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Hi all,

i im looking at having a partition (160Gig) that is usable by both linux and Windows. Is anyone able to advise a good file system for it?. I need read and write access from both OS's

Cheers

paddler · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

Writing to NTFS is still a bit iffy from linux. I don't trust it until they stop telling me its not officially supported. Fat32 works well but ...

... the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other operating systems. So if you format it under linux as FAT32 it should be accessible from both OS's. I think Windows can see a FAT32 partition up to 8TB in size

bgrade · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Ill have to try it again, i had it as fat32 but windows reported the drive was full when trying to write to it, but the drive manager still showed a lot of empty space....

Cheers

Tom

bgrade · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

Heh!,

figured out why it didnt work before, max file size is 2g. I have several 4.5g files that i am trying to store there, need to re-think my aproach.

Jim6 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 102

Using Fat32 on a volume that size is extremely dodgy {It'll work, but not >2Gb, and Defragmenting represents an entire day}

I've personally had no problems whatsoever using Captive-NTFS (Uses the WinXP driver for read-write)
You could use ext2 - there's a program which can read/write to it from Windows (although it can't handle ext3 write support)