Re: HD Backup

[Stan Zaske <zaske@insightbb.com>]

Personally, my needs are pretty modest but it would be nice to be able 
to read an NTFS disk in Linux. I would like to be able to grab the 
occasional txt file or maybe bookmarks.html etc. Not a big deal I admit 
but a universal file system would simplify things greatly. @:D>


Tom Dison wrote:
> My humble $0.02. I've learned the hard way you do not
> want to use Fat32 on the primary drive for Win2K, XP.
> SEveral of my developer tools would break, because
> there was a hidden assumption concerning file
> permissions (at the deep level of DCOOM, etc). Also, I
> believe it to be a more efficient filesystem (I'm sure
> Bryan has details). I guess if you are dual-booting,
> Fat32 lets you read-write the drive from Linux. I
> would rather have an intermediate Fat32 partition for
> sharing between OS's, 'cause you still will have no
> problem reading NTFS from Linux (I just don't trust
> writing to it). In my case, I use the Ext IFS driver
> to read my Ext3 partitions from Windows, and I can
> read the NTFS from Linux. I don't really see a need to
> write to either OS's main file system.
> 
> --- Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> Which filesystem would you suggest, just generally,
>> for use on a  
>> Windows desktop system?
>> NTFS or FAT [ FAT32 ]?
>>
>> -- Kyle Pointer <fluffyarmada@gmail.com>
>> "The only constant in the universe, is
>> inconsistency."
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