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Good interoperable Linux/Windows file system

Asked by mrbeardy

I have a VFAT formatted USB exteral hard drive which is no good for my 20 gig backup due to no support of files < 4gig:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/75574

One option is to reformat the drive to Linux friendly ext3 but is there a file format that will work as I move the drive between my Win2000 and Fiesty Fawn computers? This would be convenient.

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Martey Dodoo (martey) said : 		#1

Theoretically, you could format the drive as NTFS and use the ntfs-3g drivers to write to it in Linux.

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Best Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said : 		#2

Thank you for you question

I don't know if this help you. are program to read ext3 in windows and you can used the ext3 format to use ubuntu or use in windows

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43775
http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html

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mrbeardy (mrbeardy) said : 		#3

Thanks macuto, that solved my question.