apparle
June 16th, 2009, 10:39 AM
I am just buying a new hardidsk and will be using it to store movies.
I want to use the drive in windows and linux (read and write)
Till now I have seen that linux can handle NTFS or FAT32 without any problems but windows can't handle ext3/ext4 well.
I have tried EXT2IFS http://www.fs-driver.org/
and Ext2fsd http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
Is there any better way or should I use NTFS.
Because I tried many times but when I try to move a really big file in Windows from ext3 the Windows crashed.
Also both the above drivers donot seem to be developed regularly.
EXT2IFS doesn't even support the default ext3 isntallation created by ubuntu disk.
Please provide a permanat solution as I can't format the drive frequently to try various things.
Even though linux is open source and it's filesystems better than that of windows, how come the windows drivers are so poor where as the support of Windows FS in linux is good
I want to use the drive in windows and linux (read and write)
Till now I have seen that linux can handle NTFS or FAT32 without any problems but windows can't handle ext3/ext4 well.
I have tried EXT2IFS http://www.fs-driver.org/
and Ext2fsd http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
Is there any better way or should I use NTFS.
Because I tried many times but when I try to move a really big file in Windows from ext3 the Windows crashed.
Also both the above drivers donot seem to be developed regularly.
EXT2IFS doesn't even support the default ext3 isntallation created by ubuntu disk.
Please provide a permanat solution as I can't format the drive frequently to try various things.
Even though linux is open source and it's filesystems better than that of windows, how come the windows drivers are so poor where as the support of Windows FS in linux is good