On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:53:03PM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:37, Stuart Hammond wrote:
- Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive
I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.
Kernel 2.6 supports writing to ntfs volumes, but I don't know which of the other features in ntfs.
Erm - now, you see, this is semi true... The write support is *VERY* limited, and only allows you to play with already existent files, and doesn't allow you to create new files, or change the length of the existent files.
For a shared drive, I'd say use a spare small machine, chuck the drive in it, format it in $favourite format, and share it over samba and NFS, then only the machine with it in needs to know what format it's in, everything else just plays nice. Maybe not the most ideal solution, and does require some spare kit, but nothing particularly fancy, and works quite damned well.
Failing that, FAT32 is the next obvious choice, easy to play with in both OSs, has real write support, and sorta works.
Cheers,