Hi Smylers,<br><br> What I do is have a small FAT16 partition and on it have the EXT2 IFS driver for windows (2k+)... but it's not a brilliant way to deal with the problem.<br><br> FAT32 does indeed get rather bloody wasteful at large sizes, but NTFS support was (at my last attempt with it) flakey.<br>
<br> Of course there's also the problem then of OS/X compatibility.<br><br> Another option is to use FAT32 and loopback files, but then you're still limited to a max file size of 2Gb.<br><br>--<br>Martyn<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/28 Smylers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Smylers@stripey.com">Smylers@stripey.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there. I'm thinking of getting am external USB disk, such as this<br>
one from Buffalo with 1 Tb of storage for £70:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33798" target="_blank">http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33798</a><br>
<br>
When I get it, what filesystem should I use?<br>
<br>
Mostly I'll be using it with Linux, but it would be nice to have the<br>
option of taking it elsewhere and connecting it to others' computers,<br>
including those running other operating systems.<br>
<br>
Is Fat32 viable with such big disks? Is Linux's NTFS support any good<br>
these days?<br>
<br>
Does using a Windows-compatible filesystem mean that a file loses Unixy<br>
things such as the execute flag when copied to the disk and back again?<br>
<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
Smylers<br>
<br>
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