cpugeniusmv Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 I have a fileserver running slackware-current which has 3 hard drives. currently, they are all formatted with ext3 but i would like in the future to be able to take one of the drives and put it in a windows machine. which is the best filesystem to do this? i don't have any files over 4 GB, so FAT32 could be feasible...but can i use long filenames? i think if i mount as vfat, i should be fine. NTFS and the whole writing in linux thing has me a bit weary, i've heard of captive-ntfs...anyone have any personal experience? are there any other filesystems supported by both operating systems i don't know about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 FAT32 isn't a bad choice for a filesystem that Windows needs to be able to read/write to. Also, I have heard of ext drivers for WIndows to allow Windows to read native Linux filesystems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal_dragen Veteran Posted April 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 23, 2004 The problem with most of the drivers/programs out there to let you read and/or write the other OS's filesystems is that they are buggy at best. If you don't have anything over 4 GB, your best bet would be FAT32 as both OS's support full read/write natively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted April 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 23, 2004 captive-ntfs absolutely rocks, and is pretty much completely safe for any and all writing operations, since it uses microsoft's NTFS driver. Since NTFS is a far superior filesystem to FAT32 (but not a patch on decent linux filesystems like reiserfs...) I'd personally go with NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 well hell, if captive-ntfs is working good now with write/read support, might as well go with the best! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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