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linedpaper Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 135 Location: Fullerton, CA, USA
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:45 am Post subject: NTFS or FAT32 |
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Alright, I have dual boot right now with WinXP and gentoo and I need to keep it that way for a while. Here is my question. I have two partitions for windows right now. One of them is where I store all or my MP3 files and documents and such. I have this drive mounted as read-only in gentoo, as for the fact that NTFS writing from gentoo is dangerous. What about fat32? Would this be a better format? Am I able to write to it from both linux and windows? I don't much about this, how safe is it, etc.
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dlworld Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 89 Location: Vigo, Spain
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 10:01 am Post subject: Avoid NTFS if you can |
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Hi, linedpaper;
I avoid using NTFS. Use fat32 (you can write & read from wherever you want, resize partitions without problems...) _________________ Registered Linux user #184323. "The software said Windows95 or better, so I got a Gentoo..." |
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zhenlin Veteran
Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 10:06 am Post subject: |
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FAT32 is a simple filesystem design... It is the absolute last incarnation of a FAT based design.
NTFS is better for Windows-specific use, FAT32 for cross platform. (Almost every user-friendly-ish OS supports it, that is the power of de facto...) |
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