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hans

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External hard drive format
« on: January 11, 2008, 06:20:15 PM »
I have a 500GB USB drive and I've just realized that it's formatted FAT32 (I knew that) but I forgot that you're limited to 4GB file sizes.
I do movie backups and such to it and virtual machines that get larger than 4GB. Since I float back and forth between Linux and Windows, which format do you think I should do the drive in?

NTFS or ext3?

I'm thinking NTFS since Linux can read/write to it now. I'm not so sure things would work as well going the other way.
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Re: External hard drive format
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 08:34:54 PM »
NTFS
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Re: External hard drive format
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 09:44:13 AM »
Although you can get an EXT2 filesystem driver for windows that works well (EXT3 is backwards compatible, just hope it doesn't crash).
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