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Spyke180

Member

Registered: 2009-10-17

Posts: 14

windows accessable filesystem?

I hear Linux can access Windows partitions but not the other way around,
I was wondering if there's a non-fragging filesystem that I could use for storing media
that could be read and written to by both Windows and Linux?

FiniteStateMachine

Part of the Machine

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 1,489

Re: windows accessable filesystem?

Non-fragging? you mean you don't have to defrag it?
Well thats completely up to the operating system.
NTFS should work fine, assuming your using vista/7 and a fairly recent release of linux.
FAT32 is fine for a smaller drive (ie flash stick)

Otherwise, you might want to google for ext3 support in windows,i  believe there is an addon you can download to get it to read (but not write, iirc) ext linux filesystems.

Personally, i'd just go with NTFS.

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anonymous

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From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: windows accessable filesystem?

Id go with FAT32 for flash drives or NTFS for hard disks. I haven't had good luck reading ext3 on Windows.

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