[TriLUG] file formats

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I access NTFS from Linux (read and write), and have had no issues. I'm
using the native NTFS module in the 2.6.18 kernel.

Another option is captive-ntfs
(http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/), which is supposed to be
really good, but from my experience was rather slow.... but aside of
that, worked.

On a side note, and OT ...I saw an add in a airplane magazine for a
woman's business named "ORLY". I was in tears laughing for a few
minutes... at least until everyone started looking at me. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Dale
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:44 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] file formats

On 9/14/06, jason watts <jsnthegod at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ok, the setup i am working to build
>
> i have a 160 gig hd
>
> i plan on shrinking windows xp down to 40 gigs then installing linux 
> to another 40 gig section.
>
> the other 80 gig, i want to format so that it can be read by both 
> windows and linux.
>
> i know ntfs is out, linux isnt so good at reading it.
> i know fat16/32 are both useable by windows and linux.
>
> is there any other format i should consider useing that can be read by

> both win and linux?
>
> reason for this is i plan to use the 80 gig section to "pass" video's 
> back and forth between they two. im expecting files to be between 1
and 2 gig.
> (maybe smaller? not sure, dont have the files yet to know)


I formatted mine to ext3 and used a Windows ext2 driver.
There are two free (as in beer) drivers available - one is not open
source:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
http://www.fs-driver.org/  (not OSS)

I can't recall which one I actually use.  But I've never had any
problems with basic read/write.

Another option is NTFS.  The linux NTFS driver group are very active and
have made a lot of progress.  http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

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